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Fruits of our labor The final months of summer gardening are always met with mixed emotions. This is often when the plants we have worked so hard to grow come to fruition and are ready for harvest. It is also the time when the impacts of bugs, drought and animals are felt more acutely, and the mature plants require more care to keep them producing the glorious vegetables during this harvest season. There is so much to learn about life through gardening as it teaches you that the work is never done, growth requires care and attention, and to produce results you have to put in the time. All too often, when embarking on anti-racism efforts, fellow white people (myself included) often want to see the fruit without the labor. There are many times where we say, “please just tell me what to do” without having the context or the history for why this particular action is needed. Without this foundational understanding, it can be difficult to commit to the work in meaningful and long-term ways. The scope and importance of becoming more aware of whiteness takes time to dig into the depths of our subconscious, to unearth long-held beliefs and thought patterns that many argue are imprinted into our DNA over generations. It takes quiet reflection, sitting the discomfort of acknowledging our own dirt, picking away at our bugs, having conversations with people to help us clear the weeds, and fertilizing our soil with knowledge. Due to our social conditioning, the gardens of white people, in particular, need the investment of time, curiosity and labor to understand what lies beneath. The beautiful upside to this work is knowing that it will produce the results we want. There are literally hundreds of years of learning to unlearn but we are so lucky to have books by James Baldwin, Audre Lorde, bell hooks, Maya Angelou, and countless other Black authors to read, social media accounts to follow and films to watch. In the moment, it may feel overwhelming and hard to understand where it will lead us, but we have to trust the process and our own labor in the work. Gardening is not an easy process. The path to success is not clear or linear, and there are variables that will constantly pop up, and work to deter us from seeing the work through until maturity. The same is absolutely true to on the path to becoming anti-racist. There are going to be moments of appreciation, gratitude, frustration, sadness, and fear. Despite all of this, those who take on the work know one thing to be true: In the end, it will be worth it. Allyson Ryder addresses social justice issues in a variety of personal and professional capacities across New Hampshire. She can be reached at almryder@outlook.com.
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ON THE COVER 6 BACK TO... SCHOOL? Returning to school will look a lot different this year for everyone, but exactly what it will look like will vary from district to district and school to school. We talked to education experts about what parents and students can (probably) expect as the new school year gets underway. ALSO ON THE COVER, a new axe throwing venue opens in Hudson, p. 13. The Fire & Fusion chef competition returns, virtually, p. 17. And find live shows in our Music This Week listings, starting on p. 27.
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On Aug. 18, during a press conference, Gov. Chris Sununu announced that the State of New Hampshire will be submitting an application to FEMA to participate in the Lost Wages Assistance Program, an executive order signed by President Donald Trump on Aug. 8 that provides additional federal unemployment relief. Under the program, which is retroactive to Aug. 1, all Granite Staters who get at least $100 per week in benefits would receive another $300 in federal benefits. During an Aug. 21 press conference, state Department of Health & Human Services Commissioner Lori Shibinette announced the closing of a Covid-19 outbreak that had been at GreenBriar Healthcare in Nashua, leaving just one outstanding outbreak at a long-term care facility, at Evergreen Place in Manchester. Sununu announced, also on Aug. 21, that all restaurants in New Hampshire can now operate at 100 percent capacity indoors, provided that all guidelines for face masks and social distancing continue to be followed. Also on Aug. 21, state Attorney General Gordon MacDonald and Business and Economic Affairs Commissioner Taylor Caswell sent letters to the Massachusetts Department of Revenue, in regard to a new rule that the latter state is using to tax income
earned by non-resident employees who are working remotely. “These comments articulate our serious policy and legal concerns with Granite Staters being taxed in Massachusetts when they have not crossed the state line in months due to the Covid-19 pandemic,” Sununu said in a statement. “It is my hope that this matter can be resolved promptly and in a manner that removes any necessity for New Hampshire to consider legal remedies.” And the Governor’s Office for Emergency Relief and Recovery issued a deadline reminder that Covid-19 relief payment requests by municipalities in the state are due by Sept. 15. As of Aug. 21, 51 municipalities in New Hampshire have not yet submitted a Grant Agreement and Reimbursement Request Form, and therefore no reimbursements have been issued.
4 1332 Waiver, designed to lower rates in the individual market and to provide market stability for the future. The federal government approved the waiver on Aug. 5. Three insurance companies — Ambetter, Anthem and Harvard Pilgrim — have filed rates with the intention of offering individual products on the exchange in 2021 for New Hampshire. The companies have until Sept. 23 to commit to selling plans on healthcare.gov, according to the release.
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Renovations at the Londonderry Central Fire Station have been completed, Hooksett according to a press release, and include new equipment bays, a new lobby, a secure Regional Dispatch Goffstown Center, administrative offices, break room, conference room and a training room, fitness and MANCHESTER living spaces, as well as the relocation of the station’s flag poles and the Department’s Bedford “Never Forget” Memorial and Last Call bell.
The state Department of Education has partnered with NextStep Health Tech to launch GoodLife, a mobile application designed to build and strengthen student and social emotional resilience, according to a press release. The app allows students to join communities, set physical and emotional goals, and send and receive Insurance rates positive feedback, all while preserving Derry Merrimack Amherst The New Hampshire Insurance their anonymity online. In a statement, Department has announced a decrease state Education Commissioner Frank A guided motorcycle ride that starts at Londonderry in premium rates for individual health Edelblut said that the app “is designed 10 a.m. atMilford Stark Brewing Co. in Manchester on Saturday, Aug. 29, will plans for 2021. For 2020, the second to harness the power and connectivibenefit The Way Home, which offers lowest cost silver plan was $404.60, ty of social media to … [equip] young assistance to veterans in Greater ManNASHUA while the second lowest cost silver people to tackle anxiety, negativity and chester. The Freedom Ride heads to the plan proposed premium rate for the a host of other areas that can derail a New Hampshire Veterans Cemetery for year 2021 is $318.95, representing a young person, both online and in pera ceremony, and returns to Manchester for lunch, according to a press release. 21.2-percent decrease, according to son.” NextStep was founded by UNH a press release. The decrease in pre- graduate Sam Warach in response to miums can be attributed in part to the the passing of his older brother from medications he was prescribed. The abuse and similar cases where feloapproval of the department’s Section a prescription drug interaction from GoodLife app is available free through nies are committed against vulnerable Google Play and the Apple App Store. people; a Drug Unit, which receives cases relating to felony offenses arisCovid-19 update As of August 17 As of August 24 ing from the Controlled Drug Act Prosecution units Total cases statewide 7,004 7,134 The Hillsborough County Attor- and is involved with investigations Total current infections statewide 279 255 ney’s Office now has specialized of untimely deaths involving drugs; prosecution units that were created a Major Crimes Unit, which receives Total deaths statewide 423 429 to increase operational performance, cases relating to felony violent crimes New cases 164 (Aug. 11 to Aug. 17) 130 (Aug. 18 to Aug. 24) according to a press release. The new such as robbery, burglary, assault, units include Case Intake & Assign- aggravated DWI, negligent homiCurrent infections: Hillsborough County 127 80 ment Units, which reviews new cases cide, gang-related violence and crimes Current infections: Merrimack County 11 23 coming to the office; a Special Victims involving firearms; and a Cybercrime Current infections: Rockingham County 81 87 Unit, which receives cases relating to Unit, for the detection, investigation domestic violence, child abuse, elder and prosecution of cybercrime.
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Experts talk about the new school year and what parents and students can expect Students in New Hampshire are heading back to school — sort of. As districts kick off the 2020-2021 year (some this week, some after Labor Day), New Hampshire schools are operating with a mix of strategies and schedules: some districts are returning to fully remote learning, some have returned to all (or most) students being in a school building and some are operating on a hybrid system. Over the last couple of weeks, we reached out via email and phone to school officials at several southern New Hampshire school districts looking for administrators and teachers to comment on their plans. We didn’t receive a response from many districts, including Nashua, Manchester and Concord. Some that did respond declined to comment, a few citing lack of time. We spoke to New Hampshire Department of Education Commissioner Frank Edelblut as well as some educators and a school nurse (who all responded to emailed questions) about how they’re planning for next year.
Frank Edelblut
Commissioner of the New Hampshire Department of Education
What are some of the approaches schools are taking to reopening this fall? We put a survey Frank Edelblut. Courtesy photo. out and got 56,000plus [responses] from families, teachers, administrators and wellness providers, so we got a good sense of what the field was thinking as we began to approach the fall. … The primary focus was on how we can safely bring our students and our staff back into the buildings for in-person instruction, and we realized right away that we could probably do it safely, but maybe not for everyone. There are going to be individuals, whether those are staff or children or members of families, who have underlying health conditions that would prevent them from re-engaging in that in-person instructional model. There is still going to be a lot of uncertainty around the coronavirus and how it might present itself in our communities. So, we recognize that we need to have a certain amount of flexibility and nimbleness in the system so that we can provide a continuity of instruction for the students, whatever the circumstances are. … It’s not likely that we’re going to open in September with one [education model] that stays the same as we go forward. It’s more likely that the circumstances are going to be dynamic, and that
we will have to pivot from in-person, to hybrid, create a more consistent, higher-quality learning experience. In the spring there was a lot of varito remote, and back again. ation in quality from one [class] to the next. You Are many families shifting to home school- could have one instructor who had a high degree ing or transferring to different schools because of capacity to pivot to that remote learning and of their current school’s reopening approach? another instructor who struggled with it. We were There are many difalso offering a very ferent reasons that a inconsistent product. school district’s parStudents could have one class on Zoom ticular plans may not work for certain famand another class on ilies. Some families Google Meet. … This may have [a person fall we’re looking to with] an underlying really homogenize [remote learning] health condition. Some around a much better families may have two standard of delivery parents who work and need child care for so that everyone gets their young children. FRANK EDELBLUT a high-quality, enrich… We have seen an ing educational increase in the numexperience. ber of families that are applying to home-school their children, but it’s not a significant number. How are you supporting students who have … More often, we are seeing families working fallen behind as a result of the sudden and with their school district to say, “How can we major changes last spring? The first way is to make sure they can have work together to come up with something that’s going to meet the needs of our family?” that in-person instructional experience [within a] system where it isn’t difficult for them to What will in-person learning look like now? access their education. … The second thing It’s going to be a little bit different at each we’re doing is working with our educators and school, depending on their individual strate- families to bring those students in and do assessgies, but generally, you’re going to see social ments to see, what do they know? What don’t distancing, face masks, cleaning protocols and they know? Was there any learning loss? If so, screening individuals before they enter the build- what was that learning loss? Then, we can look ing. As [State Epidemiologist] Dr. Chan says, at how we can mitigate that learning loss … A lot there’s not one mitigating strategy that’s going to of folks are really concerned about that learning be 100 percent foolproof, but if we layer various loss. I don’t want to downplay the significance mitigating strategies on top of one another, hope- of that, but I’m not as worried about it, because I fully we’ll be able to efficiently and effectively have a lot of confidence in our education system mitigate the spread of coronavirus so that our to fill in those learning gaps. That’s what our sysstaff and our students are in a safe environment. tem does already. Every day of every year, when students arrive at school, they lack knowledge, What did you learn from doing remote edu- and it’s our job to fill in those learning gaps. It’s cation last spring, and how will it be improved what we do best. this academic year? We learned a lot. … No. 1, we learned that How are you addressing students’ social and the remote instruction model isn’t able to meet emotional needs? the needs of some of our students. That includes [The pandemic] has been a traumatic expesome of our most vulnerable students who have rience for many adults as well as many of our individualized education plans and need some children. We’ve talked a lot about the imporin-person instruction and support around that. … tance of making sure our students are socially Along those same lines, there is a need for stu- and emotionally grounded. We can provide supdents in career and technical education programs port for those children, particularly when we get like auto mechanics and welding, who rely on back to in-person instruction, through relationhands-on instruction, to be in a laboratory envi- ship-building, so that they know us and we know ronment. … The last group this applies to is them. Having that trusting relationship will allow some English learners, who had a little bit more us to more effectively engage with them. difficulty accessing the [remote] instruction. … The second thing we learned is the importance of What can parents do to help students thrive making sure districts have the [remote learning] this year? technology and are able to use that technology to I think one of the most important things parents
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We learned that the remote instruction model isn’t able to meet the needs of some of our students.
can do is be a calming influence in the lives of their children. Children respond to the demeanor and temperament of the adults around them, so if parents can remain calm and confident that we’re going to work through this, that’s going to help keep their children safe and not create any additional anxiety. … Then, I would ask parents to work with their children, especially young children, on the mitigation protocols. … Talk with them about washing their hands and what social distancing is. They may have an impulse to run over and hug their friends who they haven’t seen in a while; talk with them about how they can greet their friends in an appropriate way. Explain to them that things are going to be a little bit different this year so that they know what to expect when they show up to school. … In terms of academics, show a strong interest in your child’s learning. When parents show an interest and are engaged in their child’s academic studies, it becomes more important to the child, and they perform better. … I would also encourage parents to have a good line of communication with teachers and principals. Reach out and say, ‘How are things going? How can I help? What are the things I need to work on?’ Teachers will be able to give a lot of good feedback to parents to help them better support their child in this new environment. — Angie Sykeny
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Teacher and reading interventionist, Center Woods Elementary School in Weare, which will begin the school year on Sept. 9 with a phased-in approach until Sept. 22, during which time about a third of the student Linda Gosselin. Courtesy phto. population will be in school buildings while the others will work remotely.
How are you planning to approach the start of this year? I am looking forward to seeing the students again — it’s been a while. I plan on being positive and flexible this year, as there are a lot of unknowns. I hope to make any transitions that come our way as seamless as possible for the students. I think we have to approach this school year one day at a time, as we adjust to all the changes in what we do and what we have done. How much back-tracking do you plan to do to catch kids up on last year? For 28 years I have been a classroom teacher. I have taught kindergarten as well as first, sec-
7 ond and third grade. This year I will be assuming a new position as a reading interventionist. The reading interventionists will begin the year, as they always do, assessing students to determine their strengths and weaknesses. We will then take that data to come up with a plan to work with students who have the greatest need for reading support and intervention. We will work with them on their weaknesses, build on their strengths, monitor their growth and adjust as needed.
may be a little table and chair with good lighting in a quiet spot, or a certain spot at the kitchen table. If they are bringing home schoolwork, as in a hybrid model, they could have their learning “tools” in a zip-lock bag that is used just for schoolwork. Another suggestion would be to post a schedule, similar to a typical school day, making sure to include outside time as well as snack breaks. Parent involvement is key in remote learning. Checking your child’s work or asking a few questions about what they are working on LINDA GOSSELIN not only shows them that their education is important to you, but it keeps them accountable. As a reading interventionist, I also have to add that reading to your young child every day is a routine that should be ongoing, whether remote or in school.
I think we have to approach this school year one day at a time, as we adjust to all the changes...
What did you learn about remote teaching from last year and how are you going to apply that this year? Last year, I spent a lot of time researching and learning about new technologies and ways to make remote learning engaging and fun. For example, one of the math lessons I assigned involved the students using a virtual flashlight to search a darkened room for hidden math facts. When the light of the flashlight revealed the math fact, the student recorded themselves reading the math problem and their solution. It was fun for the students, and it gave me a lot of information about the students’ number fact fluency. … I also learned that setting expectations and holding students accountable was important, especially once the novelty of remote learning wore off. This year, I would expand on that by setting a virtual positive reinforcement reward system to help keep my students motivated. What do you think are the most important things for your students (skills to learn, emotional development, etc.) going into this year, and how are you addressing them? I think as we begin this school year, social-emotional development is by far the most important thing. For me, that means being positive and upbeat in front of the students [and] letting them know … that we can get through this different way of doing things together while having fun and learning. Next, I think establishing routines is very important. Children do better when they know what is expected of them, and with all of the changes in routines this year, they will benefit from a lot of modeling and practice. Once day-to-day routines are well-established, the students will be better able to focus on learning. What are the most important things parents can do to help kids with remote learning this year? My advice to parents would be to present remote learning in a positive way to your child, regardless of how you feel about it. Remote learning will go a lot more smoothly if it is presented to children in a positive light. Also, whenever possible, try to establish some sort of structure and routine for your child. For example, establish a specific area in your house for schoolwork. That
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School counselors, John Stark Regional High School in Weare, which will begin the school year on Sept. 9 on an alternating day hybrid schedule. What do you say to parents who are worried about how the impacts from the pandemic are going to affect their kids’ ability to get into and succeed in college? How might your advice be different for freshmen versus seniors? Colleges are going through parallel crises to that of the students and families. Some good news is that colleges are becoming ever better at their virtual options for students to learn about their school. However, it is not business as usual for admission offices and this may be the most important thing for students and families to understand. How one college is responding may look very different to another, and things may continue to change. NHHEAF [New Hampshire Higher Education Assistance Foundation] is a reliable and up-to-date resource for students and families. … We want students to know that there is no need to feel overwhelmed. Student decisions now are about where to apply, and those decisions can definitely be made virtually. … When it comes time for students to decide where to attend, there will be other options. What students must know also is that while some has
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8 changed, much is still the same. Colleges still want to see students taking a full load of the most appropriately rigorous courses. … While there are limitations to our current circumstance, it actually gives us a different way to view the student and help answer the following questions — How does a student respond to adversity? Is the student self-motivated and independent? Does the student have time management skills in place and can the student effectively self-advocate to have their needs met? These are all characteristics of a successful college student and our current circumstances gives our students the opportunity to practice and refine these skills. … As far as the freshmen, our message will be the same. They only have four years to build a beautiful transcript, reflective of their passions, tenacity and work ethic. For as we have learned, the future is unknown and so we simply do the best we can with what we have each day.
Michele Leclerc
School nurse at The Derryfield School in Manchester, which will reopen for in-person instruction, with the option for students to learn virtually.
What has your school been doing to Michele Leclerc. Courtesy get ready for the year? photo. The Derryfield School has been preparing for the 2020-2021 restart of school since last spring. We are reopening in the fall with the ability for all of our students to be physically on campus, and we have an excellent option for students to learn synchronously but virtually. We used the advice of consultants, who are public health experts with training in epidemiology, and guidelines from the State of New Hampshire and CDC to create health and safety protocols in our reopening plan. Our teachers have participated in professional development and updated curriculum to allow for an easy transition between in-class and online learning. Are there specific common areas, like buses or the cafeteria, that are cause for the most concern? How are you addressing that? At The Derryfield School buses will be at half capacity; students will have assigned seats and be prescreened, masked, and as distanced as they can be. Since that distance might not be six feet on some buses and ventilation on buses isn’t to the standard of the classroom environment, if a student or driver is positive for Covid-19, the whole bus group will be quarantined for 14 days. What is the protocol if there is a coronavirus case at your school? An extremely important part of our plan is the ability to keep students at home if there is any question about their health. If students are feeling well but need to quarantine, they are able to virtually participate in instruction using in-class-
room technology. In the event our school needs to close the physical campus, we are prepared to switch all of our students to virtual learning. How will you differentiate between influenza cases or normal colds and coronavirus? Some of the symptoms of Covid-19 (temperature of 100 F or greater, chills, cough, shortness of breath, sore throat, nasal congestion, runny nose, fatigue, muscle or body aches, headache, new loss of taste or smell, nausea or vomiting, diarrhea) can be confused with colds or the flu. I highly recommend everyone get a flu vaccine this year, especially considering it may be hard to tell the difference between Covid-19 and the flu based on symptoms alone. Although policies may differ slightly between schools in the state, NH Grade K-12 Back-to-School Guidance says any person with any new or unexplained Covid-19 symptoms (even if only mild symptoms) should not be allowed to enter a school facility. The individual should contact their health care provider for a Covid-19 test and self-quarantine for 10 days from the onset of symptoms. Symptoms must also be improved and the student must be fever-free for 24 hours without fever-reducing medication before returning to school. If there is a confirmed case of Covid-19 in a school, extra cleaning and disinfecting should be done in all areas used by the person who is sick, such as classrooms, offices, bathrooms and common areas. If a member of a school community tests positive for Covid-19, New Hampshire Public Health will work with the school to begin contact tracing. Are you getting the PPE that you need? We needed to check with multiple vendors to order the quantity of supplies we anticipate needing, but we were able to order hand sanitizer, wipes, masks, gloves, thermometers and additional PPE. It was helpful that we started the process of ordering early in the summer. Many of these supplies are now backordered. How will you handle Thanksgiving and Christmas breaks? At The Derryfield School, classes will be taught virtually from Thanksgiving until mid-January. This will allow for family travel and visiting and also to quarantine before and after visits to keep loved ones and school community members safe. New Hampshire Grade K-12 Back-to-School Guidance says any person who has traveled in the prior 14 days outside of New England should not be allowed to enter a school facility and should self-quarantine for 14 days from the last day of travel. If a student has to travel at other times of the year, we will work with the family to transition the student to remote learning during their quarantine period. What advice would you give to families about planning for this school year? What should we expect this fall and winter? What to expect this fall and winter is somewhat unpredictable. It is likely there will be waves of increased Covid-19 infections in New Hampshire. I recommend being prepared for the worst-case scenario.
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1. Prepare back-up plans now in case your child needs to be home because their school needs to go remote or your child needs to quarantine for up to 14 days due to possible exposure to someone with Covid-19. 2. Families should have a working thermometer as many schools will require temperature checks each morning before school. 3. Get hand sanitizer for your child to keep in their backpack at school. 4. Check with your child’s school regarding face mask policies. If you need to provide your own cloth masks, be sure the masks you get meet your school’s standards (WHO recommends cloth masks be three-layer). 5. Prepare your child by practicing mask wearing and social distancing (six feet recommended) in public spaces. 6. Prepare your child by practicing good hand hygiene. Wash hands for at least 20 seconds with soap and water. If hand washing is not ideal, use hand sanitizer (at least 60 percent alcohol). 7. Be sure your child has a flu vaccine.
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learn from it? I definitely think that it went pretty well, even though it was a super-challenging experience for teachers and families. I’ve got 18 years of teaching under my belt and this was, by far, the most difficult time in my professional career. At first we weren’t sure how long we’d be remote for, so it was definitely hard to have that unknown hanging out there for much of the semester. … Not being able to see my students every day in person felt like a tremendous loss; however, I think that we — teachers and students — learned a lot about the importance of the relationships that we build with each other. One of the best things to come out of remote learning was being able to have virtual individual and small group conferences with students. Obviously, it’s not the same thing as in-person conversation, but being able to provide this attention really helped me to partner with my students so that I could help them to reflect on their progress, set meaningful goals, solve problems and talk about their learning. Time and again, I was blown away by my students’ honesty and insight. … I also think that we gained a better understanding of who we were as people. Sometimes it is easy for teachers to forget that a student comes to their classroom with an entire background that affects how they respond — for better or worse — in any given moment. Our backgrounds were there for all to see during this experience. … I have a five-yearold and there were many times [when] he would interrupt a virtual lesson or meeting. My students
were so patient, kind and understanding whenever this happened. … Finally, I think that remote learning really highlighted how everyone learns differently, and how important it is for teachers to continue to use creativity to meet the needs of their learners. Obviously we know this … but it was a powerful reminder that we owe … to our students to provide relevant, rigorous and meaningful learning opportunities that appeal to a variety of interests and needs. How are you doing things differently for the fall? We will be using a hybrid model this fall. This will mean that students will participate in remote instruction for three days of the week and will meet for in-person instruction for at least two days a week, depending upon what letter of the alphabet their name begins with. What do you say to parents who are worried about how all of this is going to affect their kids’ ability to get into and succeed in college? And how is your advice different for freshmen versus seniors? First of all, I want parents to know that I understand this concern — and that we’re going to work really hard at helping students to develop the skills that they need to succeed in college and their careers. Obviously, we are facing a really challenging time in our country and our world, but I think that this circumstance is providing a lot of opportunities for personal growth. We are all in this together, but our success really depends upon everyone stepping up, taking responsibility and becoming engaged members of their communities. I know that I’m going to have to work really hard at helping my students to practice increased independence and accountability this year. When they are learning from home, I am going to have to trust them to work independently and to use their resources. … Our students have shown a lot of resilience and this is something that we are going to continue to work on. If we view this experience as an opportunity to develop independence, responsibility, resilience and communication skills, I believe that our students will be ready to tackle the challenges of college or their chosen career. How can parents best help high school-level students with remote learning? Making sure that students have a place to do school work is a great first step. I usually recommend that this isn’t in the student’s bedroom. Reviewing and posting a daily schedule with class meeting times, lunch and meal breaks, and time for exercise and recreation is helpful. A lot of high school students need support with executive function skills, so communicating the daily plan is a great way to reinforce these skills and to help students stay on track. Using a planner or a checklist also helps students to identify and manage what needs to be done. Lastly, encourage your students to reach out to teachers if they need help, have questions or are struggling. This really helps teachers to better serve their students — and it helps to build a trusting, supportive relationship between your student and their teachers. — Angie Sykeny and Matt Ingersoll
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The Nashua Silver Knights baseball team, part of the Futures Collegiate Baseball League, concluded its 10th anniversary season with a 5-3 win over Worcester, claiming its league-leading fifth title, according to a press release. Kyle Bouchard, who was named MVP of the series, made the final run in the ninth inning that won the Knights the game. The win also made the Knights the first team in FCBL history to lose the first game in the three-game championship series, then make a comeback to win the final two games. QOL Score: +1 Comment: The Silver Knights players, coaches and staff members will receive their championship rings at a ceremony in Nashua (date TBD).
Drought worsens
Parts of southern New Hampshire have escalated from a “moderate drought” to a “severe drought,” according to a press release from the New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services. The drought has affected areas in Rockingham and Merrimack counties, more than half of Strafford County and a small portion of Belknap and Hillsborough counties, with 49 percent of the state still experiencing moderate drought, 31 percent experiencing abnormally dry conditions, and groundwater levels across the state steadily decreasing. The U.S. Drought Monitor said below-average precipitation and a lack of snowpack followed by hot and dry conditions are leading factors. QOL Score: -1 Comment: The New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services urges people living in areas that are in moderate or severe drought to practice water conservation, like eliminating water use for watering lawns and washing cars, to help ensure that communities’ basic water supply needs can be met .
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An adult from Dunbarton has tested positive for the Jamestown Canyon virus, becoming the third detection of the virus in the state this year, the New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services Division of Public Health Services announced. The arboviral risk level, which measures the risk of infections being transferred from mosquitoes to humans, has been increased to “high” for Dunbarton. The neighboring town of Bow, which was already labeled high risk, will remain so; the risk level in the neighboring town of Weare will increase to moderate; and the surrounding towns of Hooksett, Hopkinton and Goffstown will remain at moderate risk. QOL Score: -1 Comment: Jamestown Canyon virus and other mosquito-transmitted infections present in New Hampshire can cause severe neurologic illness, according to State Epidemiologist Dr. Benjamin Chan.
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• Depicting sanctuaries: A new art exhibit, “Searching for Solace: Sacred Spaces/ Sacred Places,” opens at Twiggs Gallery (254 King St., Boscawen) on Saturday, Aug. 29, with an opening reception from 1 to 3 p.m. It features paintings, sculpture, textiles and ceramics by 13 artists exploring the concept of personal sanctuary, with a focus on nature. The exhibit runs through Sept. 27. Gallery hours are Thursday and Friday, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., and Saturday, noon to 4 p.m. Call 975-0015 or visit twiggsgallery.wordpress.com. • Music and a story: New Hampshire native and bestselling author of The Da Vinci Code Dan Brown will release a classical music album and corresponding children’s book called Wild Symphony on Friday, Aug. 28, according to a press release. Wild Symphony pairs short poems and illustrations of animals with classical music tracks through an app, which recognizes the page of the book and automatically plays the matching music. Visit wildsymphony.com. • Theater indoors and outdoors: The Granite Playwrights present Loose Connections, a series of three one-act plays, at the Hatbox Theatre (Steeplegate Mall, 270 Loudon Road, Suite 1161, Concord) now through Aug. 30, with showtimes on Friday and Saturday at 7:30 p.m., and Sunday at 2 p.m. Last Call, by Douglas Schwarz, follows a man who is struggling with the concept of fatherhood and sets out to make amends with his own long-deceased father. Doll House,
Art Exhibits • 41ST ANNUAL PARFITT JURIED PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBITION features photography from New Hampshire Art Association members and non-member area artists, juried by Don Toothaker, photographer, photography instructor and director of Photographer Adventures at Hunt’s Photo and Video in Manchester. NHAA’s Robert Lincoln Levy Gallery, 136 State St., Portsmouth. On view now through Aug. 29. Gallery hours are Tuesday through Thursday, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., Friday and Saturday, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.; Sunday, noon to 5 p.m., closed Monday, but are subject to change. Visit nhartassociation.org or call 4314230. • “2020 DOUBLE VISION” Features paintings by New
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by Jane Hunt, explores the question, “As the economy drags our personal fortunes to the brink, can hope, love, and memory keep us from going over?” Optimystyx, by Alan Lindsay, is about a game that exposes the secrets of an old-fashioned publishing house. Tickets cost $18 to $20 for adults and $15 to $17 for students and seniors. Visit hatboxnh.com or call 715-2315. Or, enjoy some outdoor theater with Seussical Jr., presented by All That Drama and Nottingham Parks & Recreation, outside at the Nottingham town bandstand (139 Stage Road). Performances are on Saturday, Aug. 29, and Sunday, Aug. 30, at 5 p.m. There is a $5 suggested donation to see the show. Visit allthatdramanh.com. • Market Month concludes: Intown Concord’s annual Market Days Festival, reimagined this year as Market Month, comes to a close with a Sidewalk Sale weekend, Thursday, Aug. 27, through Sunday, Aug. 30. Downtown businesses will expand their storefronts outside on the sidewalks, talk with customers and promote special items. Visit facebook.com/intownconcord or call 226-2150. • Three at the Currier: The Currier Museum of Art (150 Ash St., Manchester) is
Hampshire Art Association artists Debbie Mueller and Marianne Stillwagon. Lobby at 2 Pillsbury St., Concord. On view now through Sept. 17. Viewing hours are Monday through Friday from 5 a.m. to 7:30 p.m.; Saturday from 5 a.m. to 3 p.m.; and Sunday from 7 a.m. to 11 a.m. Visit nhartassociation.org or call 431-4230. • “MANCHESTER’S URBAN PONDS: PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE: A CELEBRATION OF THE MANCHESTER URBAN PONDS RESTORATION PROGRAM’S 20TH ANNIVERSARY Through its cleanup efforts, the Manchester Urban Ponds Restoration Program has helped restore the city’s ponds to their historic uses. The exhibit provides a look at the history of some of those ponds, including Crystal Lake, Dorrs
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Pond, Maxwell Pond, Nutts Pond, Pine Island Pond and Stevens Pond. State Theater Gallery at Millyard Museum, 200 Bedford St., Manchester. On view now through Nov. 28. Museum hours are Tuesday through Saturday, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Admission costs $8 for adults, $6 for seniors age 62 and up and college students, $4 for youth ages 12 through 18 and is free for kids under age 12. Call 622-7531 or visit manchesterhistoric.org/millyard-museum. Markets & fairs • MARKET MONTH SIDEWALK SALE Presented by Intown Concord. Downtown Concord. Thurs., Aug. 27, through Sun., Aug. 30. Visit facebook.com/intownconcord or call 226-2150. • CONCORD ARTS MARKET
now open with three new exhibitions. “Richard Haynes: Whispering Quilts” features a series of drawings inspired by traditional quilting patterns that tells the story of an enslaved family’s dangerous journey along the Underground Railroad, from a southern plantation to freedom in Canada; “Photographs from the Civil Rights Movement” features photography from the Civil Rights protests in the 1950s and 1960s; and “Open World: Video Games & Contemporary Art” explores how contemporary artists have been influenced by the culture of video games, through paintings, sculpture, textiles, prints, drawings, animation, video games, video game modifications and game-based performances and interventions. Museum hours are Thursday from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m., Friday through Sunday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., and closed Monday through Wednesday. Through August, the hour of 10 to 11 a.m. is reserved for seniors and museum members. Tickets are $15 for adults, $13 for seniors age 65 and up, $10 for students, $5 for youth ages 13 through 17 and free for children under age 13 and must be purchased in advance online. Visitors must wear face masks. Call 669-6144 or visit currier.org. • Call for art: The New Hampshire Art
Juried outdoor market features a variety of art and crafts by local artists and craftspeople. Bicentennial Square, Concord. Saturdays, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., now through Sept. 26. Visit concordartsmarket.net. Open calls • JOAN L. DUNFEY EXHIBITION The New Hampshire Art Association is accepting online artwork submissions from regional NHAA members and non-members. The exhibit theme is “Intrinsic Moments.” All media is welcome. Deadline is Sept. 14. Entry fee is $20 to $25 for NHAA members and $40 to $45 for non-members. Special events • 13TH ANNUAL NASHUA INTERNATIONAL SCULPTURE SYMPOSIUM Three
Association is now accepting online submissions of artwork for its 21st annual Joan L. Dunfey Exhibition, which will be on display at NHAA’s Robert Lincoln Levy Gallery (136 State St., Portsmouth) from Nov. 4 through Nov. 29, with a virtual opening and award ceremony on Friday, Nov. 6. The juried show is open to both NHAA members and non-members. Works in all media will be considered and should be related to this year’s theme, “Intrinsic Moments.” Artists can submit up to two pieces. The submission deadline is Sept. 14, and the entry fee is $20 to $25 for NHAA members and $40 to $45 for non-members. Visit nhartassociation.org or call 431-4230. • Sculpture on the beach: The 20th annual Hampton Beach Sand Sculpting Classic is still on for Thursday, Sept. 3, through Saturday, Sept. 5. Head to Ocean Boulevard to watch as 10 of the world’s top sand sculptors compete for cash prizes and awards. Stick around on Saturday for the judging and to vote for your favorite sculpture from 1 to 3 p.m., and for the awards ceremony at 7 p.m. The sculpture site will be illuminated for night viewing through Sept. 13. Visit hamptonbeach.org/events/sand-sculpture-event. — Angie Sykeny
sculptures spend three weeks in Nashua, creating three new sculptures that will be permanently placed in various spots around the city. Sculptors work Monday through Saturday, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., outside The Picker Artists studios, 3 Pine St., now through Sept. 4, and at the installation site at the west entrance of Mine Falls Park from Sept. 5 through Sept. 11. During those times, the public will be able to watch the sculptors work and interact with them. A closing ceremony will be held Sat.,, Sept. 12, at 1 p.m., at the installation site, open to the public and streaming online. Visit nashuasculpturesymposium.org. • 20TH ANNUAL HAMPTON BEACH SAND SCULPTING CLASSIC Ten of the world’s top sand sculptors compete for cash prizes and awards. Ocean Bou-
levard, Hampton Beach. Thurs., Sept. 3, through Saturday, Sept. 5. Judging and people’s choice voting on Saturday from 1 to 3 p.m. Awards ceremony on Saturday at 7 p.m. Sculpture site will be illuminated for night viewing through Sept. 13. Visit hamptonbeach.org/events/sand-sculptureevent. Tours • OUTDOOR ART TOUR Alnoba gives an outdoor guided tour of its international and eclectic collection of art on its property. Visitors will be able to see the art up close, touch it and hear stories about it and the artists who created it. 24 Cottage Road, Kensington. Fri., Aug. 28, 10 a.m. to noon. Tickets cost $15 and must be purchased in advance. Visit alnoba.org or call 855-428-1985.
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INSIDE/OUTSIDE Ready, aim, throw
New axe throwing center opens in Hudson
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Family fun for whenever
Children’s Museum to reopen
The Children’s Museum of New Hampshire (6 Washington St. in Dover; childrens-museum.org, 742-2002) is scheduled to reopen for a members weekend on Thursday, Sept. 3, through Sunday, Sept. 5. Membership levels include $90 for one adult and one child and $120 for two adults and children under 18 living in the same house. The next week (Sept. 10) the museum will open to the public with two timed-ticket entry sessions, Thurs-
days through Saturday, from 9 to 11:30 a.m. and 1 to 3:30 p.m., according to an email from the museum. Pre-registration will be required for visits and can be done online starting a week in advance, the email said. In October, the museum plans to offer two-hour private rentals to groups of up to 50 people on Sundays, the email said.
At the Discovery Center
After you make those Children’s Museum reservations for next weekend, head to the McAuliffe-Shepard Discovery Center (2 Institute Dr. in Concord; starhop. com, 271-7827) this weekend. Summer hours at the center continue through Sunday, Aug. 30: Wednesday through Sunday, 10:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. See the website for all the covid-era protocols.
Axe throwing at Axe Play in Hudson. Courtesy photo.
benefits. “There are people who come in who have had a stressful day, and half an hour later they are laughing,” Keller said. “They leave here feeling so much better than when they came in.”
Axe Play Location: 142 Lowell Road, Unit 19, Hudson Hours: Monday through Thursday from 4 to 10 p.m.; Friday from 1 to 11 p.m.; Saturday from 11 a.m. to 11 p.m.; and Sunday from noon to 9 p.m. The venue is also available for private parties and corporate events. Cost: $25 per person. Groups of 10 or more receive a 20-percent discount. Walk-ins are welcome, but reservations are preferred. Reservations can be made on the website.
Rules: Players must be 18+. BYOB permitted for players 21+. Closed-toe shoes are required. Leagues: League for individuals will run Mondays from 7 to 9 p.m., from Sept. 14 through Oct. 26. League for teams will run Wednesdays from 7 to 9 p.m., from Sept. 16 through Oct. 28. Entry costs $125 to join, then $25 per week. The deadline to sign up is Sept. 10. More info: Call 809-9081 or visit axeplay.com.
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Dear Donna, This is a piece of wall art, I think. Can you tell me anything about this? I was told it was possibly used to decorate cakes. Is it worth anything? Janet
always have to be of high value to be enjoyed. I do think the value of yours would be under $25.
Courtesy photo. Dear Janet, OK, you got me! I have never seen a piece like this referred to as a cake decorating piece. The wood and carving have a foreign appearance. I would also say yes it’s for a wall hanging by seeing the hook in back. I think what you have is a decorative wooden plaque. It’s most likely not too old but still a nice-looking piece. Things don’t
Donna Welch has spent more than 30 years in the antiques and collectibles field, appraising and instructing, and recently closed the physical location of From Out Of The Woods Antique Center (fromoutofthewoodsantiques.com) but is still doing some buying and selling. She is a member of The New Hampshire Antiques Dealer Association. If you have questions about an antique or collectible send a clear photo and information to Donna at footwdw@aol.com, or call her at 391-6550 or 624-8668.
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The axe throwing trend is growing in New Hampshire, with its newest venue, Axe Play, now open in Hudson. Axe Play features 16 throwing lanes, housed in a newly built facility. It’s open to both individual players and groups of players aged 18 and up and is BYOB for players of legal age. Axe Play’s co-owners, husband and wife Matt and Maria Keller, tried axe throwing for the first time with a group of friends at another New Hampshire axe throwing center. After that, they were hooked. “We all had an absolute blast,” Matt Keller said, “and any time a big group of people can get together and all enjoy the same activity, you know it must be pretty good.” Keller was retiring and looking for a new venture that would “bring a smile to people’s face.” Knowing of only two axe throwing venues in the state, he and Maria decided to
open their own. If you’re new to axe throwing, here’s the gist: It’s like darts, but with an axe. The player stands in a lane, 12 to 15 feet away from a four-by-four-foot wooden target and tries to hit the bull’s-eye. The short, single-handed axe — more of a hatchet, really — typically has a wooden handle and may vary in weight, from one to two-and-a-half pounds, and in length, with a blade up to four-anda-half inches and a handle between 16 and 18 inches. In a standard game each player gets 10 throws and earns points based on where they hit the target. Each ring on the target is worth a different number of points, ranging from one point for the outermost ring to six points for the bull’s-eye. Additionally, there are two small blue dots on the target; if a player announces before their throw that they are aiming for one of the dots and they hit one, they earn eight points. Axe Play’s trained instructors, or “axeperts,” will help you out if you’re new to the
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sport or having trouble getting the hang of it. “We give people as much one-on-one instruction and attention as they need so that they can be able to hit the target and have fun,” Keller said. Strategy-wise, there is no “right” way to throw an axe. Some people throw with one hand, and some throw with two. Some people take a step forward as they throw, while others keep their feet planted. “There’s a base to work from, but you can modify it to do what works best for you,” Keller said. “It’s really just about finding your sweet spot.” Axe throwing is not only a fun pastime, Keller said, but also comes with physical benefits, like building arm and shoulder strength and flexibility, as well as mental
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14 INSIDE/OUTSIDE THE GARDENING GUY
Re-wild your lawn Start small to build up your garden By Henry Homeyer
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Tired of mowing your lawn, but afraid to stop? What would it look like, and what would the neighbors say? I was on a panel discussing “re-wilding” the lawn on New Hampshire Public Radio recently. Here are a few of the points we discussed. First, a lawn is the easiest, least time-consuming way to maintain your property. If you want a meadow of flowers for birds, bees and pollinators of all kinds, lots of work is involved. You can’t just quit mowing, or rototill the lawn and broadcast some wildflower seeds, and then step back to enjoy. You would get some nice flowers, but your yard would also fill up with weeds and invasive trees. My advice? Start small. A little corner of the yard, say something four feet wide and 15 feet long, would be a good start. Decide how much time you can commit to it, and how often you want to work in the garden. Can you dedicate half an hour each morning before work? An hour after work? Good gardens are built by people who do something in the garden every day. Get a soil test done. New Hampshire and Rhode Island have stopped doing tests, Ver-
mont will do them for Vermonters, and Maine, Massachusetts and Connecticut accept samples from out of state. Get a home gardener test with as much info as possible. Next, you have to remove the grass. That means slicing through the lawn to create onefoot by one-foot squares that you can remove and take away to your (new?) compost pile. Don’t try to do it all at once. Do a little at a time. Do your homework. Read books and go online to see what will work in your yard. Do you have full sun (six hours or more each day), part sun, or shade? Is your site hot and dry or cool and moist? Select flowers that will work in your climatic zone, and get a variety of bloom times: some for spring, others for early summer, late summer and fall. Improve your soil. All soil can be improved with compost. Buy it by the truckload, not the bag. Get it delivered if you don’t have a truck. Work the compost into the soil after the grass is removed. If you want to support butterflies, birds and bees, think native plants. Native plants are those that co-evolved with the wildlife. And let wildflowers be part of the mix. Right now Queen Anne’s lace is in bloom along the roadside. It’s a biennial in the carrot family and is loved by the bees. Learn to recognize the small
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Groundcovers can act a first-year plants, dig up a few bit like mulch: They can preand plant them. Once established, the flowers will drop vent soil erosion and suppress seeds each year. weeds. It is often tough to find But what about the neighgood native groundcovers like groundsel or goldenstar for sale, bors? One of the panelists had but they are available if you look done a study in Springfield, hard enough. Winecup is a good Mass. She asked homeowngroundcover for hot dry, sunny ers to mow their lawn either A sign like this lets neighbors weekly, every two weeks, or know you are not lazy, but letting places, and is often available. the lawn grow for a reason. Photo Oregano and thyme can be used every three weeks. So that by Henry Homeyer. as an understory ground covthe neighbors would be more understanding, they put signs in the yards tell- er that bees love, and they are readily available. ing others that they were part of a scientific And Creeping Charlie? It’s that “weed” hatstudy. ed by lawn-lovers because it can “spoil” a nice They counted insects and found a two-week lawn and spread like crazy in part shade. But it schedule for mowing was best for bees and is a native plant with nice flowers and is loved pollinators: clover and dandelions had time to by bees. Think about letting it proliferate in bloom and to provide food without being hid- your “non-lawn.” den in tall grass. Lastly, if you want a landscape that is beautiTo create a sustainable non-lawn, you need to ful and low-maintenance, think about planting introduce not only those tall, bright flowers like trees and shrubs. Many bloom nicely and all black-eyed Susans and purple coneflower, but are useful to wildlife. Some native shrubs that groundcovers that will fill in between plants. I grow and love are fothergilla, blueberries, One of the panelists, Thomas Rainer, is the elderberry, buttonbush and our native rhodoco-author with Claudia West of the book Plant- dendron and azalea. ing in the Post-Wild World: Designing Plant If you stop mowing the grass and want flowCommunities for Resilient Landscapes. In their ers, put up a sign. I recently saw one that was book they explain that in nature there are plant very simple: it said “Butterfly Crossing.” Hopecommunities: plants that need roughly the same fully that appeased the neighbors a little. soil and light, and that co-exist nicely. If you Henry is the author of four gardening books want a balanced plant community, you need a and a speaker at garden clubs and libraries, even diverse, supportive collection of plants, includ- now, using Zoom or at outdoor venues. Contact ing groundcovers. him at henry.homeyer@comcast.net.
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Why all the boring car colors?
Dear Car Talk: A casual look at traffic shows you that almost all cars are either gray, black or white — with a few red sprinkled in. OK, some people call their gray cars “silver,” but we know By Ray Magliozzi better. My second car was a two-tone copper and cream 1956 Bel Air. A later one was a two-tone Buick Regal. Such imaginative color combinations were the rule as much as the exception. What happened? Why are our colors so boring and washed out? Are the manufacturers cheap, or have they lost their imagination? — Paul I’m actually color blind, Paul. So no one’s listened to a word I say about car colors since that time I came home with a purple AMC Pacer in 1976. The answer is fashion, Paul. Fashion is something that’s so ridiculous that we have to throw it out every six months and start all over. And when it comes to less expensive purchases, some people can throw stuff out every six months. You can buy a powder-blue leisure suit with white piping one day because it seems fashionable. And then, six months later, you can leave it in the closet and go buy something else. But as we go up the expense ladder, people
tend to get more conservative. So you might take a chance on a loud shirt for $50 and see how you like it over time, figuring you can always stop wearing it. But when you’re buying a house or a car, you’re likely to feel more risk-averse. You’d hate to spend $30K on a new car and decide it looks ridiculous six months from now, with 78 months of payments still to make. So people tend to stick with (a) muted colors and (b) colors that lots of other people have already chosen, because that makes them feel that they’re making a safe choice. Safety in numbers, right? We can’t all look ridiculous. The truth is, if people wanted to buy lime green cars, the carmakers would be happy to paint them that color. It’s more or less the same to them in terms of cost. But what they don’t want is a lime green car sitting on the lot for two years waiting for a color blind idiot like me to think it’s gray and buy it. Still, you can find some fringe colors out there. You just might have to special order them. Dodge, in fact, makes a Day-Glo lime green Charger. Honda makes a bright orange Fit. You can get a Ford Transit Connect in school bus yellow. You can order your Jeep Renegade in metallic aqua. And you can get pretty much any Mini you want in two-tone paint. As for me, I drive a “silver” car. But in my closet, just waiting for it to come back into fashion, I have a spectacular, double-breast-
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Dear Car Talk: I’ve had the blower motor replaced on my 2013 Nissan Altima. Then a fuse blew. A new fuse was put in. The new fuse blew. I took the car to a place to check the electrical system. They said the electrical system was fine. They replaced two fuses and said it shouldn’t happen again. My blower motor, when driving, goes from high to low without me adjusting anything. I think it needs a new resistor, but the shop says the fuses should take care of it. They say just wait to see if it blows again. But that means another trip to the mechanic. I don’t know what or who to believe. I just need to know if I’m on the right track or not. Should I go someplace else? — Donna I think so, Donna. Fuses don’t just “blow” for no reason. And whatever is causing it will eventually cause the fuse to blow again. Was the poltergeist fan speed the reason you had the blower motor replaced in the first place? If so, I’m afraid they may have sold you a blower motor you didn’t need. But let’s assume the fan speed gremlins arrived after the new blower motor. Normally a fuse blows when an electrical device is drawing too much current. The whole purpose of the fuse is to sacrifice itself and cut off the power to that device before the device can draw so much current that it overheats and starts a fire. Although maybe a fire sounds like a good
solution to you at the moment? So the fuse is doing exactly what it’s supposed to do. The question is, why? Normally, it means that something is forcing the blower motor to work too hard. What could that be? Well, it could be that they sold you a rebuilt blower motor, and it’s simply no good. It could be that the guys who installed the blower motor accidentally dropped something into the housing, like burrito supremo. Or maybe some twigs or debris got into the fan housing and are making the blower motor work extra hard to turn the fan. Another possibility is that the blower motor relay could be bad. And finally -- and most likely -- it could be exactly what you suggest, Donna; a bad resistor. The resistor is the part responsible for changing the speeds of the fan. So if your fan is pulling a Friday the Thirteenth, the resistor would be the first thing I’d suspect. If you came into the shop, I’d probably get you a new resistor for $35 and a blower motor relay for $25. After all, I want to make sure you don’t come back! To install the resistor, I’d need to remove the glove box, so there’s a good hour or more of labor involved. And while I had the glove box out, I’d pull down the blower motor housing to make sure your fan is turning easily and freely and that there’s no debris in there getting in its way. So I’d take it to someone you have more confidence in, and be sure to tell them about the issue with the fan speed. That’s a flashing red light that says “RESISTOR.” Good luck, Donna. Visit Cartalk.com.
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FOOD Plant-based eats
Col’s Kitchen opens in downtown Concord By Matt Ingersoll
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Bow native Jordan Reynolds found out in June that Willow’s Plant-Based Eatery in Concord was closing permanently. Less than two months and countless hours of construction later, a new vegan restaurant has reopened in Willow’s place, with Reynolds and former Willow’s staff member Rob Ray at the helm. “Willow [Mauck], who’s a friend of mine, called me up … to say that she decided to permanently close,” said Reynolds, who’s been vegan since the age of 17. “I’ve wanted to start a vegan company for a long time. I had planned on starting a food truck, but then all the gigs we had planned were getting canceled, so that ended up not happening. … So when Willow called, I just thought that maybe it was my time to get the torch passed.” Col’s Kitchen, named after Reynolds’ nine-year-old pit bull, opened its doors on Aug. 12. Despite the eatery’s quick turnaround, its concept — what Reynolds refers to as an “eclectic, all-American” approach to vegan foods — has been years in the making. Col’s Kitchen features a well-rounded menu of plant-based options, from appetizers and salads to entree-sized meals, desserts and brunch items on Sundays. After signing a lease for the space in late July, Reynolds said, he spent 10 or more hours a day for nearly three weeks renovating the restaurant’s kitchen and dining space, all with the help of family members, friends and community members who volunteered their time. They put down a new hardwood floor with pine from a local sawmill, painted the walls and chairs that were donated to them, and even built their own tables out of wooden boards and gas pipes. Col’s Kitchen’s opening day coincided with Restaurant Week, a program of Intown Concord’s Market Month. The eatery was
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• Apples to apples: Gov. Chris Sununu proclaimed Aug. 25 to be New Hampshire Apple Day to celebrate the Granite State’s annual apple harvest, according to a press release. He and Agriculture Commissioner Shawn Jasper made the ceremonial first pick of the season on Aug. 25 at Apple Hill Farm in Concord. On Sept. 4, Sununu and Jasper will visit Brookdale Fruit Farm in Hollis to continue the apple season celebration. In Milford, McLeod Bros. Orchards will kick off its 75th season of pickyour-own apples on Saturday, Aug. 29, featuring Paula Reds, a mildly tart early season variety. They’re usually followed by McIntosh, Cortland and Gala varieties around early September, and Mutsu, Jonagold and Roxbury Russet varieties later in the fall. Visit agriculture.nh.gov or nhfruitgrowers.org for more details on where to find New Hampshire-grown apples. • Fresh food fast: The Common Man Roadside will open a new location this fall inside the Tru by Hilton Manchester Downtown hotel, at 135 Spring St., according to a press release from The Chhom Group, the local commercial real estate firm announcing the lease deal. The eatery will feature a cafe and coffee shop, as well as a 120-seat restaurant with a bar and outdoor patio. Similar to the locations in Hooksett, Plymouth and on South Willow Street in the Queen City, The Common Man Roadside’s newest location will feature made-to-order and grab-and-go items, with an emphasis on takeout and mobile and online ordering capabilities. Visit thecmanroadside. com for updates. • Agave wine cocktails: The New Hampshire Liquor Commission recently rolled out a line of premixed agave wine cocktails, according to a press release. Agave wine is made by fermentation of agave sap, producing a tequila-like beverage but with lower alcohol. Available now are the Cold Brew Espresso and Cold Brew Salted Caramel agave wine cocktails from Cafe Agave; the baja lime and strawberry margarita bottled cocktails, both from Flybird; and the House Wine premixed canned cocktails made with wine, including a canned, readyto-drink Paloma that is tart with a fresh grapefruit flavor, and a Casa-Rita featuring flavors of agave and lime. Visit liquorandwineoutlets.com or call your local store for details.
Buffalo Seitan Scram Sammy. Photo courtesy of Col’s Kitchen.
Strawberry rhubarb pie. Photo courtesy of Col’s Kitchen.
so well-received on Day 1 that its staff ran out of food three times over the course of the day and had to repeatedly replenish its stock, according to Reynolds. “We got killed, but you could call it a pleasant surprise,” he said. “I wasn’t sure how many people would come out during a pandemic, but they were more supportive than we imagined. … Vegans were certainly hungry after not having a place here for a few months.” Reynolds said it was important not only to give vegan customers options they would not otherwise have, but also to make the menu accessible to everyone. Seitan (pronounced “SAY-tan”), for example, is a high-gluten wheat flour used as a protein in Col’s Kitchen’s stroganoff and Philly cheesesteaks in lieu of meat. Other options include Buffalo cauliflower wings with ranch, Brussels sprouts with sweet garlic sauce, seared tofu pad Thai with rice noodles and veggies, various smoothies and milkshakes, and coffee from White Mountain Gourmet Coffee. Some dessert items Col’s Kitchen has featured out of the gate have been macarons, pies and root beer floats. You can also get a “pie shake,” made with either apple or strawberry rhubarb pie.
“We put a piece of pie in a blender, crust and all, and then add a couple scoops of ice cream and a little dash of milk in and just blend it up,” Reynolds said. “It’s like pie à la mode, but in a glass.” Currently the eatery is open for lunch and dinner from Wednesday to Saturday, with brunch available on Sunday mornings. That menu features pancakes, Belgian waffles, tofu scrambles and “Scram Sammy” sandwiches with options like chili cheese and Buffalo seitan. Reynolds said the plan is for Col’s Kitchen to be open seven days a week. “We want to start bottling up our own sauces for sale. We make the Buffalo sauce, the ranch that goes with [the wings] and we make the Thai peanut sauce,” he said. “We’re also looking into making our own ice cream in the next couple of months.” Col’s Kitchen Where: 55 S. Main St., Concord Hours: Wednesday through Saturday, 11 a.m. to 9 p.m., and Sunday, 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. for brunch (hours may be subject to change) Contact: Find them on Facebook and Instagram @colsplantbased, email colsplantbased@gmail.com or call 227-6778
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May the best chef win
Fire & Fusion chef competition returns (virtually) By Matt Ingersoll
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A friendly contest featuring local chefs who are asked to create their best dishes in under 30 minutes using “mystery” ingredients, the Fire & Fusion executive chef competition will be held virtually this year — and the winning chef will be chosen by viewers based on production and stage presence while making
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their dish rather than the taste of their dish. “It became obvious that we wouldn’t be able to have an in-person event,” said Judy Kunz Porter, director of marketing, communications and development for the Nashua Senior Activity Center, which hosts the event, “but it’s also our biggest fundraiser of the year, so we knew we needed to find a way to have it.” The competition, now in its eighth year, will feature Mike Morin of 106.3 Frank FM
radio as the host. It has been professionally produced and will stream on Wednesday, Sept. 2, at 7 p.m. on the Senior Activity Center’s Facebook and YouTube pages. A number of local public access television stations are also carrying the broadcast, including Channel 96 in Nashua, Channels 12 and 191 in Hollis, Channel 23 in Manchester and Channel 20 in Hudson. Channel 96 will then air the CONTINUED ON PG 17
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Chef Bailey Fischer of Bridges by Epoch in Nashua. Photo courtesy of Virtual Fire & Fusion.
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show every day for the following week. “It’s kind of an interesting twist, because for the past five years we’ve sold out the event at 350 tickets,” Porter said. “So more people than ever before are going to get to enjoy it now.” Throughout the last couple of weeks, Porter, along with a crew from Molloy Sound & Video, met with each of the six participating chefs to tape their segments, which were then returned to the studio and edited for production of the show. As with previous competitions, the chefs are all from local assisted living or long-term care facilities, a feature that came along with the event’s conception. Rejean Sheehy of The Courville at Nashua, a previous Fire & Fusion champion, is returning this year, while a few new faces, like Bailey Fischer of Bridges by Epoch at Nashua and Joanne Johnston of Benchmark Senior Living at Nashua Crossings, are competing. Other contestants include Hilton Dottin of Bedford Nursing & Rehabilitation Center, Dennis Hickey of The Courville at Nashua – Aynsley Place, and Guy Streitburger of The Arbors of Bedford. Usually the chefs are not given their ingredients until the start of the 30 minutes to make their dish. But this year, Porter said, they were given out shortly before taping and will be revealed to the viewer at the top of the show when it airs. Each chef was required to utilize all of the ingredients that were given to them. “They knew they had no more than 30 minutes to spend, and most of them took between 17 and 20 minutes to make their dish,” Porter
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said. “We were amazed, and I think viewers will be too, at the number of different ways they used the same ingredients. I think especially because people are cooking more in their homes, it may open their eyes to try and switch things up a little bit.” The show, Porter said, is expected to run about an hour and a half, featuring each of the six chefs’ segments in succession. At the end, audience members will be able to vote for their favorite chef online at nashuaseniorcenter.org, on Facebook @nashuasac or by calling 889-6155. Voting will be open for one week following the event’s air date. “That’s new this year,” she said. “People will get to vote for whoever they think had the best production and stage presence.” The conclusion of the show will also feature a raffle of more than 50 items. For $35 you can be entered into the raffle for a chance to win prizes, like round-trip airline tickets, passes to Disney World, ski lift tickets, wine baskets, restaurant gift cards and more. The raffle will run through Sept. 15, with drawings to take place shortly after. 8th annual Fire & Fusion executive chef competition (virtual) When: Wednesday, Sept. 2, 7 p.m. How to watch: Stream the competition on the Nashua Senior Activity Center’s Facebook or YouTube pages, or on multiple local public access television channels, including Channel 96 (Nashua), Channels 12 and 191 (Hollis), Channel 23 (Manchester) and Channel 20 (Hudson).
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Look, I know, when you think beach time and summertime, you don’t think about porters and stouts. I don’t either, except sometimes I do. From May through September beer enthusiasts are drinking and talking about beers that are crisp, fresh, light and bright, and that’s great. I’m all for it. Most of the time in the summer, that’s what I want too. You have to shake things up, though. You just do. Sometimes things just get a little too crisp and a little too bright, and nothing resets your palate in summer quite like a rich porter or stout. Now, OK, I’m not suggesting that you crack open a Guinness at 1 p.m. on a blazing hot summer day at the beach. You’d regret that move. Not every day is a blazing, hot summer day at the beach, though. Especially in New England — though admittedly perhaps not this summer — you have plenty of days at the beach or at the lake or in the mountains where cool breezes stand out more than the fiery sun, so seize those moments and treat yourself to something a little richer. Imagine taking in the summer sunset on a cool, clear New Hampshire evening with a decadent coffee stout. It’s truly hard for me to imagine something more relaxing and more satisfying than that. I want that experience right now and I think you should want it too. This notion really came to me a week or so ago when I was on vacation enjoying a porter called “Portah” by Barnstable Brewing of Hyannis, Mass. The deep richness and complexity was unlike anything I’d drunk recently and it was invigorating as I, wait for it, took in the sunset at the beach. Here are four stouts and porters you should try this summer.
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Jazz sax legend Charlie Parker is often referred to by his nickname “Bird,” which explains the title of this Princeton jazz director’s widely acclaimed 2015 album Bird Calls. If you’re familiar with Parker, you know he had the ability to dazzle with his bebop stylings, and so has Mahanthappa, who viewed this LP as an opportunity to pay rapt obeisance to Parker, his biggest and most obvious influence. But whatever, my goal here, as always, isn’t to lay out some eggheaded synonyms for the benefit of solemn aficionados whose record collections are 20-feet-wide end-to-end, but to rope in the odd stray who’s thinking of taking a dip in the depthless pool that is jazz. The long and short of this business here is that I can’t recommend this album highly enough if you’re wanting to be blown away by technical wizardry; most of its contents are extremely busy, effecting to cover the listener in bright musical glitter, but the touchstone knuckleball’s a beauty too, a rub of Johnny Cash’s “Ring of Fire” that plays with the modal subject like a dolphin with a beach ball. Nice one to have around. A- — Eric W. Saeger The Milwaukees, The Calling (Mint 400 Records)
You can imagine how many times the great cosmic metaphorical Lucy van Pelt has pulled away the football just when I’m about to pronounce a straight-ahead rock record something special, leaving me tripping hilariously and landing on my duff, holding a half-written review that has to get sent to the recycle bin. It’s happened a lot. No, if your band wants to sound like Goo Goo Dolls with a side of Foo Fighters and get your local following of working stiffs to pay actual attention, this is what you want to sound like. As demonstrated here, decent guitar riffage is only one tool on hand, not the whole box; these guys prove that there’s still a place for non-indie hooks in our world, even if the most common place for hearing such stuff — sports bars — seems to be gone for good in the face of Covid. This is the sixth full-length from a crew of New Joisey die-hards who’ve worked their formula to the point that anyone would be convinced they were papertrained by Bryan Adams. Some really catchy, heartfelt stuff here. A+ — Eric W. Saeger
PLAYLIST A seriously abridged compendium of recent and future CD releases • One more round of new CDs for August comes at us on the 28th, and then it will be September, and I’m just going to shut up about what comes next, because surely nothing good will come of it, unless you are an abominable snowman or a ski buff, neither of which I’ve ever had an interesting conversation with. Self-taught musician Angel Olsen is from St. Louis, Missouri, and her deal is art-pop/indie folk. She received the most love for her 2016 album My Woman, because she successfully tried to get away from being pigeonholed as a lo-fi indie artist (pro tip for local musicians: Don’t play lo-fi indie if you want to avoid said pigeonhole). Pitchfork liked that one and, as usual, wrote way too many wordy words to indicate same (“congeal” was in there) but that’s Pitchfork for you, and the PopMatters review was poorly written, but that guy loved it too, all of which then presented a double-edged sword, because now all the hipsters were used to her not being a sad, privileged gloom-girl anymore, so all the critics hedged their bets on her next album, Phases, which covered songs from Bruce Springsteen and Roky Erickson, and gave it middling grades. That sort of brings us to now, and her new one, Whole New Mess, which comprises a bunch of songs from her 2018 album, All Mirrors, but supposedly these are more “intimate” versions, which tells me that if this stuff isn’t going to sound lo-fi and gloom-girl, I’m a monkey’s uncle in a striped suit. Yeah, yep, the title track is all gloomy, and I think one of her guitar strings is a little out of tune, which will bring joy to anyone who loves their music crappy. She’s a good singer, a little like k.d. lang, but gloomy and redundant. Come and get it, three-toed sloths. • Toni Braxton is trapped in fame purgatory these days, now that she’s more of a reality show oddity than what she was originally, a cool bedroom-soul lady who was name-checked by a Spike Lee character in Do The Right Thing. Whatever nonsense is on her upcoming new album, Spell My Name, I’m sure it’s decent as long as she hasn’t switched over to doing Slim Whitman covers, but come on, isn’t there footage of her tripping over a Gucci bag and skinning her knee, or whatever happened on her reality show? Right, I’m supposed to take this seriously? Fine, I will, I’ll listen to her new single, “Dance,” and if I barf, it’s on you. Right, it isn’t bad, sort of like Sade but with more soul. Some gentle 1980s UFO bloops, a 1970s-radio orchestra section. Ha, now it’s getting all excitable toward the fadeout, and the overall effect is like a disco dance scene from The Love Boat. Let’s just forget this ever happened, fam, and move on to our next tale of terror. • I know I’ve talked about Toots & the Maytals in the past, in this award-winning column, but I totally forget/don’t care what they do, so this’ll be like that movie where Drew Barrymore forgets where she is every day upon waking up. Wait, here we are, they’re a Jamaican ska/rocksteady band, maybe I was thinking of someone else. The band’s new album, Got to Be Tough, is coming, and the title track is pretty standard one-drop chill with a cool guitar part. The lyrics are about caring, which obviously nails the current zeitgeist. • We’ll end this week’s parade of shame with another soul singer, Bettye LaVette, who, to her credit, doesn’t have a stupid reality show. Blackbirds is the new album, “I Hold No Grudge” the single. OK, now this is authentic and awesome, torchy soul, electric piano, and her voice is all croaky and old. Nice. — Eric W. Saeger Local bands seeking album or EP reviews can message me on Twitter (@ esaeger) or Facebook (eric.saeger.9).
Retro Playlist Eric W. Seager looks back at hip-hop. Now that the Covid virus has left us all marooned on our own domestic desert islands, any elephant in the room is getting close examination. The elephant in the room regarding my 16-yearold column here is, of course, the fact that I don’t cover a lot of hip-hop. No reader has ever complained to me about it; I’ve posted the occasional Lil Wayne review and whatnot, but you and I both know I largely avoid the genre.
Fact is, I’m at the point where I find basically all corporate hiphop quite tedious to write about. I was the first kid on my block to buy a Run-DMC cassette, I’ll have you know, and quite frankly, I decided that after Public Enemy’s 1990 masterpiece Fear of a Black Planet, there was nowhere to go but down for the entire genre. I tell you, I’ve tried, and yeah, I’ll continue to. I paid some lip service to Swedish rapper Yung Lean’s recent LP Stranger, but now that we’re all friends here, lazily tossing peanuts at Dumbo, I can say that I think the guy
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just sucks. No, I was more hopeful about white-guy indie-rap in 2006, upon hearing Astronautalis’ The Mighty Ocean & Nine Dark Theaters (some truly immersive beats there), but to be honest, to me, if it isn’t Chuck D-level angry, I don’t have time for it. Same as I like DMX a hundred times more than Ludacris, I like Death Grips a hundred times more than Kendrick Lamar. Make sense? One reason I mostly avoid corporate rap is because the reviews always end descending into reams of in-crowd nonsense about
this or that tweet or Instagram beef. Gag me. As far as indie rap, I’m down, like I’d be big into giving some press love to a local artist who’s got some beats, if one even exists. If you’re in a local band, now’s a great time to let me know about your EP, your single, whatever’s on your mind. Let me know how you’re holding yourself together without being able to play shows or jam with your homies. Send a recipe for keema matar. Email esaeger@cyberontix.com for fastest response.
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Clean, The New Science of Skin by as dangerous. “To appear ungroomed sugJames Hamblin (Riverhead, 253 pages) gested that you could not afford to wash, and that your toilets were the excrement He was a doctor with questionable judg- pits in alleys adjacent to your tenement. ment, or so it seemed, when he gave up You may be one of the disease carriers.” medicine to become a journalist and, at That led to a new standard, in which peoroughly the same time, decided to stop ple were required to do more than simply showering. not look or smell gross; “a person was to So why isn’t Dr. James Hamblin’s new smell actively good” to signal that they book called “Unclean”? didn’t harbor germs or fleas. Then capiIt’s because there’s an increasing body of talism, which Hamblin says “sells nothing evidence that we are doing our bodies no so effectively as status,” took over, and favors with all the soap, deodorant, mois- something human skin had done without turizers and exfoliants to which we daily for thousands of years — soap — became subject our skin. Skin isn’t just a cover- a necessity. Until late in the 19th century, ing; it’s the body’s largest organ, and it soap was primarily used for laundry, in part teems with more organisms than there because it was so harsh, such as the comwere residents of New York City before the bination of lye and animal fat that early pandemic. colonists made. Meet, for example, the demodex, a In the most compelling chapter, “Lathmicroscopic arachnid that lives in your er,” Hamblin tells the origin story of iconic facial pores and eats your dead skin cells. brands such as Dr. Bronner’s, Ivory, Dove That seems a good reason to show- and Camay. (Fun fact: Wrigley’s chewing er hourly, but like the gut flora that keep gum was developed to help sell soap that our intestinal tract happy, it appears that William Wrigley Jr. made. The gum sold these organisms are there to help, and we better than the soap, which is why Chicaare becoming unhealthier by scrubbing go has Wrigley Field. Also, the Dr. Bronner them away. “Research into the microbiome of Dr. Bronner’s Magic Soaps “was not a seems poised to overturn even our most doctor, nor particularly tethered to scientifbasic assumptions about how to take care ic reality.” of our skin,” Hamblin writes. Hamblin is a staff writer for The AtlanSo Hamblin, who was downsizing any- tic, and some of the content in Clean will way when he moved from Los Angeles to seem familiar to the magazine’s readers. New York, decided to delve into “the new He wrote about his no-showering policy in science of skin” while going three years 2016, and I remembered a catchy couple of without washing his face. Before you dis- lines I’d read just a few weeks earlier in The miss him as kooky, know that this is an Atlantic: “In October, when the Canadian emerging trend. The internet is full of peo- air starts drying out, the men flock to Sanple who have stopped showering regularly dy Skotnicki’s office. The men are itchy.” and people who simply rinse off with water, I encounter these reruns with no resentwho swear that not using soap and sham- ment, however, because Hamblin’s voice is, poo made their skin and hair healthier. They frankly, delightful. The line about the itchy also insist that they don’t stink. men and Canadian air could be set to rap Hamblin weaves his own journey to music, and we’d all nod along. Hamblin is becoming one of the “Great Unwashed” one of a genre becoming known as “media with the history of cleanliness, from the doctors” and is the best in the burgeoning Romans’ public baths to Dr. Bronner’s pep- field. His explanation of how soap is made permint soap. Especially fascinating is how will make you wish he’d been your highcleanliness became a sign of social status school chemistry teacher, and he strikes just after germ theory was introduced, and an the right balance of being funny enough to unkempt and soiled person came to be seen entertain while being wonky enough to trust
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BOOK NOTES The ink was still wet on the World Health Organization’s declaration of a pandemic when enterprising writers started churning about the novel coronavirus. On Amazon, you can find books with titles like The Covid-19 Catastrophe, The Coronavirus Prevention Handbook, God and the Pandemic, and (Expletive) Off, Coronavirus, I’m Coloring, many of them self-published. Enough time has elapsed, however, for other titles appropriate to the global trainwreck called 2020 to emerge, and two are notable this week. First, Flatiron is reissuing How to Survive a Pandemic by Dr. Michael Greger. He’s a vegan-lifestyle advocate who has built a brand around the words “How Not To.” His previous books include How Not to Die and How Not to Diet. The new paperback (592 pages) is the timely expansion of a book first released in 2006. Greger, who runs the website Nutritionfacts.org, says he donates all book proceeds to charity.
A more lighthearted title to be released Sept. 8 is The Lake Wobegon Virus (Arcade, 240 pages), your enjoyment of which may have much to do with whether you’ve forgiven Garrison Keillor for the transgressions that led to his canceling. It’s been three years since he was fired by Minnesota Public Radio for inappropriate behavior, and his publisher must believe he’s been punished enough, because there are two titles scheduled from him this fall. (The other is a memoir, This Time of Year, set for release Nov. 17.) The Lake Wobegon Virus sounds fun. The description, provided by the publisher: “A mysterious virus has infiltrated the good people of Lake Wobegon, transmitted via unpasteurized cheese made by a Norwegian bachelor farmer, the effect of which is episodic loss of social inhibition.” Not nearly as fun as that coronavirus coloring book, though. — Jennifer Graham
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as a source of medical information. Which brings us to an elephant in the room, which is the pandemic. Hamblin finished the manuscript in January, before anyone foresaw the horror that is 2020, and his publisher had to worry that a book that suggests we clean ourselves less frequently might raise some eyebrows and serious questions. He addresses this in one paragraph of the prologue, saying “the stories and principles I share are no less relevant in this new era of pandemic awareness, as we recover from one and brace for the next.” I’m not so sure about that as I survey the supply of soap and hand sanitizer at Hannaford. But Hamblin never says we shouldn’t be washing our hands. And he says that he’s never been one to touch his face. So carry on as you were in that department, but consider his invitation not to scrub every inch of your body so zealously, and with so many products. Your friendly neighborhood demodex will thank you. A — Jennifer Graham
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Teenage boys who might be some degree of embarrassed by this movie when they are older spend a week giving a pretty good demonstration of modern American politics in the documentary Boys State.
The opening credits remind you of where you’ve likely heard of the week-long, American Legion-sponsored government camp Boys State before: that iconic photo of Boys State try-hard teenage Bill Clinton, shaking hands with President Kennedy at Boys Nation (whose participants are chosen from Boys State). Other notable participants, as the movie highlights, include Dick Cheney, Rush Limbaugh and Samuel Alito (also Cory Booker). As we are introduced to the participants in 2018’s Texas Boys State we meet kids who seem like fitting heirs to that list. In particular, hit-the-ground-politicking Robert MacDougall feels like exactly the sort of kid who would introduce himself by saying he’s the future governor of Texas. We also met Ben AT THE
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Feinstein, a teen who lost both his legs to meningitis as a preschooler. He has worked hard to achieve and, he explains, that has shaped a very “up by your bootstraps” mindset. The big prize of Boys State is to get yourself elected governor (or, as becomes Ben’s goal, be the teen-behind-the-curtain for the kid who does get elected). “Oh, their poor mothers” I found myself thinking about the crop of boys who are absolutely certain in their world views (so many opinions about abortion!). We also meet kids who arrive ready for a challenge: René Otero and Steven Garza come to Boys State aware that many of their fellow participants are likely more politically conservative than them but they are eager to make their mark nonetheless. Watching them figure out how to work themselves into the boy-created power structure is probably the most compelling action of the early part of the documentary. Then, about halfway through this movie when I was wondering why Girls State wasn’t
cado was to understand his place in the 1990s TV ecosystem, thanks in part to clips presented here of his appearances on shows hosted by Sally Jessy Raphael and Sinbad. And that’s just for English-language American audiences; the movie also helps to explain his far greater fame among Latin Americans (both living in the U.S. and in the rest of the hemisphere). An
chosen as the focus (girls unleashed to be aggressive political animals feels like something more ripe for examination and suited to this moment in history than boys yelling into mics about masculinity), the movie makes a little turn and shows you a story of kids really caring about really making a difference — and really, aggressively playing politics the way you would if your formative political experience was 2016. Though the documentary clearly anoints its heroes, I don’t really think it turns other kids (and these are just kids, kids who I hope are OK with how this movie shakes out) into villains. You see people with political viewpoints and also political instincts and a desire to win. The movie demonstrates why this is a worthwhile program and not just a resume-burnisher; we see boys care, and care deeply and watch them become genuinely respectful of their peers. It’s a fascinating little study of what this moment in American history means to the practice of politics and
astrologer, Mercado had a wardrobe Liberace might envy and projected a love for all of his viewers that had an almost Mister Rogers-like tone. Certainly, fans meeting him shortly before his death in 2019 seemed to be filled with a kind of giddy awe mixed with childhood nostalgia. As one fan (Lin-Manuel Miranda) explains, his show was the stuff of afternoons spent
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with grandma and a general aura of unconditional love. Fans, friends and business associates (including one who eventually sued Mercado for use of his own name) explain the legend and the impact of Walter Mercado in this jolly documentary. Even if you aren’t a Walter Mercado fan going in, you will be when the movie is done. A Available on Netflix.
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• Artful: A free courtyard concert by River Sister offers a wonderful blend of folk traditions and jazz rhythms, pure harmony married to musical complexity. It’s part of the Currier’s Art After Work event, which includes happy hour drink specials and a full menu for purchase outdoors. Timed tickets are available in advance, and highly encouraged. Thursday, Aug. 27, 5 p.m., Currier Museum of Art, 150 Ash St., Manchester, currier.org/event/ art-after-work. • Tribute: With big tours on hold for now, tribute acts like Pink Houses are getting a lot of action. The band recreates John Mellencamp’s extensive catalog, led by singer-guitarist Doug Hoyt as the Hoosier’s doppelganger, with drummer Jeffrey Brayne, bass player Ken Lloyd and guitarist Justin Carver. The Arts In The Park concert is held adjacent to Belknap Mill, which is sponsoring the event. Friday, Aug 28, 6 p.m., Rotary Riverside Park, Beacon St. East, Laconia, facebook.com/belknapmill. • Forceful: While you can’t catch Metallica in person, a filmed concert by the iconic band screens at a local drive-in, with opening act Three Days Grace. Each carload ticket includes four digital downloads of S&M2, a new live album chronicling their reunion with the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra last year, which opened that city’s new (and currently dormant) Oracle Arena. Saturday, Aug. 29, 8 p.m., Milford Drive-In Theater, 531 Elm St., Milford. Tickets $115 at ticketmaster.com. • Authentic: After postponing an appearance last month, Nick Drouin performs at a downtown country themed bar/restaurant. The drummer turned front man has a well-tuned instinct for crafting good songs, as exemplified by “Small Town,” an autobiographical paean to growing up in Candia recorded in Nashville with Jason Aldean’s III Kings rhythm section. Saturday, Aug. 29, 9 p.m., Bonfire Restaurant & Country Bar, 950 Elm St., Manchester, facebook.com/nickdrouinmusic.
The Socially Distanced Concert Series closing out the summer at Delta Dental Stadium includes several tribute acts, most of which promise note-for-note recreations of hit songs. On Aug. 28 and Aug. 29, Dancing Queens does ABBA, followed the next weekend by local heroes Recycled Percussion playing their trademark junk rock. Ending the series, Almost Queen appears Sept. 12. They’re exactly as billed, right down to the lead singer’s Freddy Mercury motorcycle jacket. Beatles Night on Sept. 11 features a very different kind of doppelgänger, however. The Weeklings do cover “Baby, You’re a Rich Man” and “Paperback Writer” in their set, along with several more Fab Four favorites. But the band’s sweet spot band lies in creating originals that sound like lost Lennon & McCartney gems. Imagine that Revolver had been followed not by Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, but by another Rubber Soul. That describes The Weeklings’ sound on songs like “In the Moment” and “Little Elvis.” It’s a wonderful glimpse into what might have been, in a show that also includes never-released Beatles tracks. The John and Paul of the band are Zeek and Lefty Weekling, the stage names of Bob Burger and Glen Burtnik. The two have worked together since the 1980s and share a love of Beatles music. Burtnik’s resume includes stints with Styx and the Broadway hit Beatlemania; he also co-wrote “Sometimes Love Just Ain’t Enough” for Patty Smyth and Don Henley. Rounding out the group are guitarist John Merjave and drummer Joe Bellia as Rocky and Smokestack Weekling. Burger co-wrote a few Styx songs with Burtnik and has three solo albums out, but for shows like the upcoming one he asks to be quoted as Zeek — that’s how completely
he inhabits his character. Like many children of the ’60s, he picked up a guitar after seeing The Beatles on The Ed Sullivan Show, and never looked back. With The Weeklings, the two feel free to follow a muse with an English accent. “We wrote together for years, very often having to intentionally avoid sounding too much like The Beatles,” Zeek said in a recent phone interview. “So when we got this band together it was like, ‘OK, the gloves are off.’ We could do whatever we wanted to do.” The band grew out of Birth of the Beatles, a tribute show focused on the Fab Four’s first two albums. “We found out at that point in their career they were playing live in the studio,” Zeek said. “We said, ‘Well, this is fun, a little self-contained four-piece. … Let’s go take some Beatles songs they didn’t record.’” Their eponymous debut album, released in 2016, contained “Because I Know You Love Me So,” a McCartney song dating back to their Quarrymen days — the version quotes “She’s a Woman” and “Drive My Car” — along with the Help! outtake “That Means a Lot.” Quickly they diverged from being a pure covers band. “We had original songs that also fit into the same mode, so we started moving away from the tribute band concept almost immediately, by playing our own arrangements of obscure Beatles songs, and originals that sound like them,” Zeek said. The formula worked; they’re staples on satellite radio stations The Loft and Little Steven’s Underground Garage, and in demand as live performers. They’ve released a trio of albums; the latest, 3, arrived in mid-January. A harbinger of Burger’s future success happened in 2003, when he played a Hamptons party for fellow New Jersey native Jon Bon Jovi. Prior to his set, he learned some big names might be at the bash. “Jon goes, ‘There’s a 25 percent chance
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Candia Candia Woods Course 313 South Road 483-2307 Chichester Flannel Tavern 345 Suncook Road 406-1196 Concord Area 23 State Street 881-9060
Telly’s Restaurant & The Goat Golf Pizzeria 20 L St. 235 Calef Hwy. 601-6928 679-8225 Hampton Beach Sea Exeter Shell Stage Sawbelly Brewing Events are on southern 156 Epping Road stage Valley 583-5080 Instabar Gilford 61 High St. Patrick’s @instabar.nh 18 Weirs Road 293-0841 McGuirk’s Ocean View Restaurant & Lounge Goffstown 95 Ocean Blvd. Village Trestle 25 Main St. Smuttynose Brewing 497-8230 105 Towle Farm Road
Hudson Fat Katz 76 Derry St. 298-5900
Manchester Backyard Brewery 1211 S. Mammoth Road 623-3545
T-Bones 77 Lowell Road 882-6677
Bonfire 950 Elm St. 663-7678
Kingston Saddle Up Saloon 92 Route 125 369-6962
Candia Road Brewing 840 Candia Road 935-8123
Laconia The Big House 322 Lakeside Ave. Cactus Jack’s 1182 Union Ave. 528-7800
CJ’s 782 S. Willow St. 627-8600 Club Manchvegas 50 Old Granite St. 222-1677
Meredith Mills Falls place 312 Daniel Hwy.
Portsmouth Market- Dolphin Striker 15 Bow St. Webster 431-5222
The Gas Light Twin Barns Brewing 64 Market St. 194 Daniel Webster 430-9122 Hwy. 279-0876 The Goat 142 Congress St. Merrimack 590-4628 Homestead 641 Daniel Webster The Statey Bar & Grill Hwy. 238 Deer St. 429-2022 431-4357 Milford The Riverhouse Cafe 167 Union Square 249-5556
Derryfield Country Club Nashua 625 Mammoth Road American Social Club 623-2880 166 Daniel Webster Cheers Hwy. 17 Depot St. Naswa Resort Firefly 255-8272 Murphy’s Carriage 228-0180 1086 Weirs Blvd. 21 Concord St. Greenfield House Wally’s Pub 366-4341 935-9740 Fody’s Tavern 393 Route 101 Concord Craft Brewing The Hungry Goats Eat- 144 Ashworth Ave. 9 Clinton St. ery 488-5875 117 Storrs St. 926-6954 T-Bones The Foundry 577-9015 4 Slip Road 856-7625 50 Commercial St. 547-3240 T-Bones WHYM Craft Pub & 1182 Union Ave. 528-7800 836-1925 Fratello’s Italian Grille 169 S. River Road Lithermans Brewery 194 Main St. Hampton 623-7699 126 Hall St., Unit B 853 Lafayette Road Londonderry Fratello’s 889-2022 Ashworth by the Sea 601-2801 Coach Stop Restaurant 155 Dow St. 295 Ocean Blvd. Bow Derry & Tavern 624-2022 Peddler’s Daughter 926-6762 Cheng Yang Li T-Bones Henniker 176 Mammoth Road 48 Main St. 520 South Bow St. 39 Crystal Ave. Pats Peak Sled Pub 437-2022 Jewel Music Venue 821-7535 Bernie’s Beach Bar 228-8508 434-3200 24 Flanders Road 61 Canal St. 73 Ocean Blvd. 888-728-7732 Moonlight Meadery 819-9336 New Boston 926-5050 Bristol Epping 23 Londonderry Road, Molly’s Tavern & Homestead The Community Oven Hooksett KC’s Rib Shack Restaurant Bogie’s 1567 Summer St. 24 Calef Hwy. Big Kahunas Smoke- No. 17 216-2162 837 Second St. 35 Mont Vernon Road 32 Depot Square 744-2022 734-4543 house 627-RIBS 487-1362 601-2319 1158 Hooksett Road 7-20-4 Lounge at Twins Brookline Popovers at Brickyard 935-7500 Smokeshop McIntyre Ski Area Newmarket Community Oven Averill House Winery Square 50 Chalet Ct. Stone Church 845 Lafayette Road 21 Averill Road 11 Brickyard Square Chantilly’s Restaurant 80 Perkins Road 421-0242 622-6159 5 Granite St. 601-6311 371-2296 734-4724 & Pub 659-7700 1112 Hooksett Road Stumble Inn Murphy’s Taproom CR’s The Restaurant Railpenny Tavern 625-0012 20 Rockingham Road 494 Elm St. 287 Exeter Road 8 Exeter Road 432-3210 644-3535 929-7972 734-2609 Copper Door 15 Leavy Dr. 488-2677
Thursday, Aug. 27 Amherst LaBelle: Jared Rocco, 3:30 p.m.
Goffstown Village Trestle: Mystical Magical Duo, 6 p.m.
Bedford Copper Door: Joanie Cicatelli, 6 p.m. Murphy’s: Jonny Friday, 5:30 p.m. T-Bones: Phil Jake’s, 6 p.m.
Hampton Ashworth: Tim Parent, 4 p.m. (Sandbar) Bernie’s: Pete Kilpatrick Band, 7 p.m. (main stage); Joe Sambo, 7 p.m. (patio) CR’s: Barry Brearley, 6 p.m. The Goat: Alex Anthony, 8:30 p.m. Sea Ketch: Matt Luneau, 1 p.m. Sea Shell: Country Mile, 7 p.m. (country) Smuttynose: Open Mic with Max Sullivan, 6 p.m. Wally’s: Chris Toler, 7 p.m.
Derry T-Bones: Chris Lester, 6 p.m. Epping Telly’s: Scott Plante, 7 p.m. Exeter Sawbelly: Dean Harlem, 5 p.m.
The music returns These listings for live music are compiled from press releases, restaurants’ websites and social media and artists’ websites and social media. Events may be weather dependent. Call venue to check on special rules and reservation instructions.
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Henniker Pats Peak: Shaun Mcgyver, 5 p.m.
KC’s: Jodee Frawlee, 5:30 p.m. Murphy’s: Maven Jamz, 8 p.m.
Hudson Fat Katz: Karaoke Social Distance Style, 7 p.m. T-Bones: Justin Jordan, 6 p.m.
Merrimack Homestead: Malcolm Salls, 6 p.m.
Kingston Saddle Up Saloon: Karaoke with DJ Jason Whitney, 7 p.m.
Nashua American Social Club: MB Padfield, 7 p.m. Fratello’s: Ralph Allen, 6 p.m.
Laconia Naswa: Bob Pratte Band, 9 p.m. T-Bones: Chris Perkins, 6 p.m.
Newmarket Stone Church: Andrew Polakow, 6 p.m.
Londonderry Stumble Inn: Troy & Luneau, 6 p.m.
Portsmouth Gas Light: Matt Langley, 8 p.m. The Goat: Ellis Falls, 9 p.m.
Manchester CJ’s: Clint Lapointe, 6 p.m. Derryfield: Austin & Justin, 6 p.m. Firefly: Caroline Portu, 5 p.m. Fratello’s: April Cushman, 6 p.m.
Rochester Governor’s Inn 78 Wakefield St. 332-0107 Revolution Tap Room 61 N. Main St. 244-3022 Salem Copper Door 41 S. Broadway 458-2033 T-Bones 311 South Broadway 893-3444 Seabrook Chop Shop Pub 920 Lafayette Road 760-7706 Stratham Tailgate Tavern 28 Portsmouth Ave. 580-2294 Windham Castleton 92 Indian Rock Road 800-688-5644 Old School Bar & Grill 49 Range Road 458-6051
T-Bones: Music from J-Z, 6 p.m.
Lithermans: DJ Shamblez, 4 p.m.
Windham Old School: Corey McLane, 6 p.m.
Derry T-Bones: Pete Peterson, 6 p.m.
Friday, Aug. 28 Auburn Auburn Pitts: Nicole Knox Murphy, 6 p.m. (Country) Bedford Copper Door: Phil Jakes, 6 p.m. Murphy’s: D-COmp Duo, 7:30 p.m. T-Bones: Caroline Portu, 6 p.m.
Epping Community Oven: Brad Bosse, 6 p.m. Popovers: Craig Lagrassa, 5 p.m. Telly’s: April Cushman Duo, 8 p.m. Exeter Sawbelly Brewing: Bria Ansara, 2 p.m.; Todd Hearon, 5 p.m.
Bristol Homestead: Jim Conners, 5 p.m.
Gilford Patrick’s: Don Severance, 4 p.m.
Rochester Governor’s Inn: Amanda Dane Band, 6 p.m. (groovin’ rock)
Candia Candia Woods: Munk Duane, 5:30 p.m.
Goffstown Village Trestle: Jennifer Mitchell, 6 p.m.
Salem Copper Door: Pete Peterson, 6 p.m.
Concord Area 23: Angry Garfunkels, 6:30 p.m.
Greenfield The Hungry Goat: Granite Peach, 7 p.m.
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Bow Chen Yang Li: Karen Grenier, 7 p.m. Bristol Homestead: Jim Conners, 5 p.m. Brookline Averill House Winery: Aria Zarnoski, 2 p.m.; Union Roots, 4 p.m. Concord Area 23: Song Writer Circle with Liam Spain, 2 p.m.; Lichen, 5:30 p.m. Concord Craft Brewing: Lucas Gallo, 4 p.m. (singer/songwriter) Derry T-Bones: Chris Perkins, 6 p.m. Epping Telly’s: 603’s, 8 p.m.
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Rochester Governor’s Inn: Aunt Peg, 7 p.m. (classic rock) Salem Copper Door: Joe Winslow, 6 p.m. T-Bones: Tim Kierstead, 6 p..m. Seabrook Chop Shop: Leaving Eden, 6:30 p.m. Stratham Tailgate Tavern: Alan Roux, 7 p.m. Windham Old School: Maddi Ryan, 7 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 29 Bedford BVI: Jodee Frawlee, 5 p.m. Copper Door: Pete Peterson, 6 p.m. Murphy’s: April Cushman, 7:30 p.m. T-Bones: Rebecca Turmel, 6 p.m.
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29 NITE MUSIC THIS WEEK Hooksett Big Kahuna’s: Dough Thompson, 5 p.m. Hudson Fat Katz: M.F. Law, 6:30 p.m. T-Bones: Chris Gardner, 6 p.m. Kingston Saddle Up Saloon: Crunc Acoustic, 7 p.m. Laconia The Big House Deja Voodoo, 5 p.m. Fratello’s: Tim Keirstead, 6 p.m. Naswa: Blue Matter, 1 p.m. T-Bones: Sean Coleman, 6 p.m. Londonderry 7-20-4: Dyer Holiday, 4 p.m. (acoustic rock/pop covers) Coach Stop: Tom Rousseau, 6 p.m. Moonlight Meadery: Midnight Americans, 6 p.m. Stumble Inn: ON2 Duo, 6 p.m. Manchester Backyard Brewery: Justin Cohn, 5 p.m. Bonfire: Nick Drouin, 9 p.m. Derryfield: Those Guys, 7 p.m. CJ’s: Corinna Salven, 6 p.m. Firefly: Chris Powers, 6 p.m. The Foundry: Eric Lindberg & Brad Myrick, 6 p.m. Fratello’s: Chris Cavanaugh, 6 p.m. KC’s: Justin Jordan, 6 p.m. (Tiki Bar) McIntyre: Austin McCarthy, 5:30 p.m. Meredith Twin Barns: Gabby Martin, 3 p.m. Merrimack Homestead: Ted Solo, 6 p.m. Milford Riverhouse: Caroline Portu, 6 p.m. Nashua American Social Club: Matt Jackson, 7 p.m. Fratello’s: Max Sullivan, 6 p.m. Peddler’s Daughter: Brien Sweet, 8 p.m.
New Boston Molly’s: The Incidentals, 5 p.m. Newmarket Stone Church: Green Heron with Old Hat Stringband, 6 p.m. Portsmouth The Goat: Pat Dowling, 9 p.m. Statey: Whiskey Horse, 8 p.m. Rochester Governor’s Inn: Country Roads, 7 p.m. (new country) Salem Copper Door: Phil Jakes, 6 p.m. T-Bones: Ralph Allen, 6 p.m. Seabrook Chop Shop: All about the ‘90s, 7 p.m. Windham Old School: Mo Bounce, 6 p.m.
Showdown and johnE & the Rockits with Martin & Kelly, Rodeo Clowns, Mychae David, Darren Bessette, Fred Ellsworth, Tylor Crocker, Michelle Jackson White, 2 to 8 p.m. (country music) Smuttynose: Ericka Van Pelt Duo, 1 p.m.; April Cushman, 5:30 p.m. Striker: Max Sullivan, 7 p.m. Wally’s: MB Padfield, 2 p.m.; LuffKid, 7 p.m. WHYM: Phil Jakes, 1 p.m. Hudson Fat Katz: Granite Street Rhythm, 2 p.m. Kingston Saddle Up Saloon: Scott Plante, 5 p.m.
Sunday, Aug. 30 Bedford Murphy’s: Gabby Martin, 4 p.m. Chichester Flannel Tavern: White Dog Duo, 4 p.m.
Newmarket Stone Church: Open mic with Dave Ogden, 5 p.m.
Concord Cheers: Corey McLane, 4 p.m. (solo/acoustic)
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Manchester Fratello’s: Ryan Williamson, 6 p.m. Murphy’s: MB Padfield, 6:30 p.m. Merrimack Homestead: Jodee Frawlee, 6 p.m. Nashua Fratello’s: Brad Bosse, 6 p.m. Portsmouth Gas Light: Dave Gerard, 8 p.m. Windham Castleton: Paul Driscoll, 5 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 3 Amherst LaBelle: Derek Fimbel, 3:30 p.m. Bedford Copper Door: Chad LaMarsh, 6 p.m. Murphy’s: Jonny Friday, 5:30 p.m. T-Bones: Gabby Martin, 6 p.m. Concord Area 23: Vinyl Night, 3 p.m. Derry T-Bones: Dave Zangri, 6 p.m. Epping Telly’s: Austin McCarthy, 7 p.m. Hampton Seashell Stage: Angela West and the Showdown, 7 p.m. Smuttynose: Open Mic with Max Sullivan, 6 p.m.
Kingston Saddle Up Saloon: Karaoke with DJ Jason Whitney, 7 p.m. Laconia T-Bones: Matt Langley, 6 p.m. Londonderry Stumble Inn: BassTastic Duo, 6 p.m. Manchester CJ’s: Ralph Allen, 6 p.m. Derryfield: D-Comp, 6 p.m. Firefly: Justin Cohn, 5 p.m. Fratello’s: Matt Luneau, 6 p.m. Murphy’s: Mica Peterson Duo, 8 p.m. Merrimack Homestead: Chris Powers, 6 p.m. Nashua American Social Club: Henry LaLiberte, 7 p.m. Fratello’s: Ryan Williamson, 6 p.m. Portsmouth Gas Light: Clint Lapointe, 8 p.m. Rochester Governor’s Inn: Rosie, 6 p.m. (rock) Revolution: Karaoke, 7:30 p.m. Salem CopperDoor: Jodee Frawlee, 6 p.m. T-Bones: Bob Pratte, 6 p.m. Windham Old School: Swipe Right, 6 p.m.
• ABBA Tribute Show Friday, Aug. 28, and Saturday, Aug. 29, at 7 p.m., Fisher Cat’s Delta Dental Stadium • Acoustic Grateful Dead with John Zevos and Friends Friday, Aug. 28, 7:30 p.m., Rex Theatre • Martin Sexton Friday, Aug. 28, 19 S. Depot Road, Hollis 8 p.m., Cheshire Drive-In Live Stone Church alpinegrove.com • Sweet Baby James (James Tay5 Granite St., Newmarket Bank of NH Stage in Concord 659-7700, stonechurchrocks.com lor Tribute) Saturday, Aug. 29, 3 & 6 p.m., Tupelo Drive-In 16 S. Main St., Concord • Sojoy Trio Saturday, Aug. 29, 6 Tupelo Music Hall 225-1111, banknhstage.com & 8:30 p.m., Music Hall (out on Outdoor venue: Fletcher-Murphy 10 A St., Derry Chestnut Street) 437-5100, tupelomusichall.com Park (28 Fayette St. in Concord) • Green Heron with Old Hat Stringband Saturday, Aug. 29, 6 Zinger’s Cheshire Drive-In Live p.m., Stone Church 29 Mont Vernon, Milford Cheshire Fairground • A Couple of Fools (Mike and zingers.biz 247 Monadnock Hwy, Swanzey Rich of The Foods), Saturday, drive-in-live.com Aug. 29, 7:30 p.m., Rex Theatre Shows Fisher Cats Socially Distanced • Will Dailey Thursday, Aug. 27, 6 • Marcus Rezak’s Shred is Dead Saturday, Aug. 29, 8 p.m., Bank of p.m., Tupelo Drive-In Concert Series • Entrain Friday, Aug. 28, 6 p.m., NH Stage in Concord Delta Dental Stadium • Carbon Leaf Sunday, Aug. 30, 3 Tupleo Drive-In 1 Line Drive, Manchester • Town Meeting Friday, Aug. 28, & 6 p.m., Tupelo Drive-In nhfishercats.com 8 p.m., Zinger’s The Music Hall Concerts Ticketed shows; schedule subject 28 Chestnut St., Portsmouth to change. See venues for up-to- 436-2400, themusichall.org date information. Rex Theatre 23 Amherst St., Manchester Venues 668-5588, palacetheatre.org Alpine Grove
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GUESS THAT’S WHY THEY CALL THEM THE PUZZLES Silverchair 66. Buck Owens ‘Let’s __ To Disagree’ 67. Actress/model Sedgwick that inspired The Cult song
58. British ‘Sand In My Shoes’ female singer 59. What band will do to adjust sound 61. Phish “Nothing __ __ say to make it stop, stop, stop” (1,3) 62. Bob Marley loved it so much, he asked us to ‘__ __ Twice’ (2,2) 63. Elton John ‘Sorry __ To Be The Hardest Word’ 64. ‘Ithyphallic’ metalers named after Cairo’s waterway 65. Female who’s ‘Song’ is was, to
48. ‘Turn Me On Mr Deadman’ __ Underground 49. ‘I Am Not My Hair’ Arie 50. __ & The Maytals 51. Not the chorus 55. Jazz, soul, funk and disco = __ Jazz 56. State most band are from, for short 57. Zac Brown was ‘__ Deep’ in it 59. Elton John “And I’m gonna be high __ __ kite by then” (2,1) 60. Limb Mellencamp got ‘Up’ on ‘Whenever We Wanted’© 2020 Todd Santos
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Across 1. Song went down the charts or did this 5. What penniless band is up against 10. Brian Johnson ‘Powerage’ band 14. Impressions ‘All I Want __ __ Is Make Love To You’ (2,2) 15. Unwritten Law didn’t get any sleep when they stayed ‘__ __ Night’ (2,3) 16. Kelly Osbourne song that means “Whoops!” (2,2) 17. Rocker was a roll call misser or went this, when fame hit too hard 18. Jim Croce “And he’s bad, bad __ Brown, the baddest man in the whole damn town” 19. Elton John’s sidekick Tim 20. “With a rebel __, she cried more, more, more!” Billy Idol 21. Notable period of music is called this 22. A very wealthy star might need to put their cash in a few of them 23. ‘07 Symphony X album named after John Milton’s 1667 epic poem (8,4) 27. Rapper/singer/American Idol judge Nicki 30. ‘Nobody Does It Better’ Carly 31. Finnish metal band that lacks moral sense, perhaps 33. After he was knighted he became __ Elton John 34. Choir part 38. The composition of music for instruments 41. Chicago ‘__ Anybody Really Know What Time It Is?’ 42. ‘Unforgettable’ __ King Cole 43. Milli Vanilli concocted one to fool the public 44. Musical directions may take different these through years 46. Gets promoted at label or does this through the ranks 47. Santana ‘__ __: The Greatest Guitar Classics Of All Time’ (6,6) 52. What off-key sing-alonger next to you will do 53. Spacehog wants to live on NYC’s ‘2nd’ this (abbr) 54. Blues Traveler ‘Featherhead And Lucky __’
Down 1. Gloria Estefan was clingy when she sang ‘Can’t __ Away From You’ 2. ‘(What’s So Funny ‘Bout) Peace, Love, & Understanding’ writer/rocker Nick 3. Former Generation X singer Billy 4. ‘94 Hole hit about toy models’ limbs lying around (4,5) 5. “Slap me with a splintered __” Alanis Morissette 6. ‘Tommy’ & ‘The Black Parade’ are rock ones 7. ‘81 ‘The Best Of Times’ Styx album (8,7) 8. Jeff Lynne’s band (abbr) 9. Metric kept it down low and ‘On The __’ 10. Blackalicious had a great ear for ‘__ Pleasure’ 11. Grateful Dead “Got a wife in __, babe and one in Cherokee” 12. On the bay Otis Redding sat on them 13. Rock star will puff his out for the photo op 22. Folds, Kweller, or Lee 24. Brand New caught a firefly and put it ‘In __ __’ (1,3) 25. ‘The Trouble __ __’ Gavin Rossdale (2,2) 26. Organizes albums or does this 27. Led Zep ‘Living Loving __ (She’s Just A Woman)’ 28. Elton John “__ __ longer counting I’m not keeping score” (2,2) 29. Part of face Weezer considers ‘Dope’ 32. David Guetta song about some eclipses? 34. Persuaders “It’s __ between love and hate” (1,4,4) 35. UB40 is calling us out with ‘Promises And __’
36. Elton John “Turn __ __ when you’re lonely” (2,2) 37. ‘03 Michael Jackson video album that had all the hits: ‘Number __’ 39. Band accountant better be good at this school subject 40. Stoner band’s growing plot 44. ‘00 Bosstones album to us to listen up and ‘__ Attention’ 45. ‘90 Fleetwood Mac ‘Behind The Mask’ hit they sang to life preserverthrower? (4,2) 47. Iron Butterfly ‘In-A-__- Da-Vida’
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32 JONESIN’ CROSSWORDS BY MATT JONES
“For the Birds” — multi-tasking for the “modern Stone Age family” (#34, Feb. 2002) Across 1 Drains, as energy 5 R&B singer Cantrell 8 Cause counterpart 14 Jog like a horse 15 Presidential monogram during the 1960s 16 “Starlight Express” director Nunn 17 Gigantic bird with a stone passenger cabin 19 Item with an image-chiseling bird 20 Suffix for McCarthy 21 With a tilde, “year”; without,
something nastier 22 Darkness and obscurity 23 Musical item using a pointybeaked bird 28 Eye color location 29 Birds on a ranch Down Under 30 Word after tight or rear 33 “Ad ___ per aspera” (Kansas state motto) 35 PBS kids’ show that taught Ubby-Dubby 36 Fortune 500 member, most likely 37 Signaling item, when the bird’s
tail is pulled 39 Motorist’s signal, when the bird is squeezed 42 Parisian street 43 Annoying “Sesame Street” muppet 45 “Biography” network 46 “Abso-friggin-lutely!” 47 Mother of all, in Greek mythology 48 Other, to Osvaldo 49 Garden tool, when the bird’s legs are squeezed 53 “The Heat ___” 55 Dig in 56 Pension plan alternative 57 Writing implement using a bird’s beak 59 Talking bird flying back and forth between stone boxes 61 Cover for a platter 62 “Little piggy,” really 63 “___ but known ...” 64 Tousles, like a puppy 65 AMA members
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Down 1 It’s made to step on 2 Obey Viagra? 3 San Francisco and New Orleans, for two 4 Frequent NASCAR sponsor 5 Uses an iron, maybe 6 Quick stretch in the alphabet song 7 Article written by Voltaire? 8 List-ending abbr. 9 Web design option that’s obsolete 10 Thighbone 11 “The Greatest Story ___ Told” 12 Stopper for the bubbly 13 Singing syllable 18 Cowboy’s rope 24 Hockey great Bobby and family 25 Summer sign 26 Service station owned by BP 27 Arizona City, today 30 Cost-friendly 31 Bookish type
32 Cooked to perfection 33 Off-kilter 34 Elisabeth of “Leaving Las Vegas” 35 Woody Allen “regular guy in famous situations” movie 38 Old paint additive 40 Ostrich or kiwi, e.g. 41 “First Do No ___” (Meryl Streep TV film) 44 Sallie ___ (student loan provider) 47 Site of a 1949 European “Convention” 48 Takes to the soapbox 49 Wishes 50 Carreras, Domingo, or Pavarotti 51 Etch away 52 Harold of “Ghostbusters” 53 “To Live and Die ___” 54 Twist, as statistics 57 AOL or MSN, e.g., once ... 58 ... and where to find them 59 “___ be my pleasure!” 60 Sorority letter © 2002, 2020 Matt Jones
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The continuing crisis
Government restrictions aimed at slowing the spread of Covid-19 have had no effect on a growing trend on the island of Okinawa, Japan, called “rojo-ne” (literally, sleeping on the road), which local authorities blame on the island’s balmy weather and people’s habit of overindulging in “awamori,” a traditional rice-based liquor. Okinawa police have fielded more than 2,700 reports of rojo-ne in just the first six months of 2020, The Guardian reported, putting the island on pace to match last year’s 7,000 reported incidents, which resulted in 16 accidents and three deaths. Tadataka Miyazawa, the police chief, said he “didn’t even know the term ‘rojo-ne’ before coming to Okinawa.”
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Organizers of Philadelphia’s 12th Annual Naked Bike Ride have canceled the event, scheduled for Aug. 29, because of the pandemic, the Associated Press reported. Ride organizer Maria Serrahima said she hopes people will be able to return next year and that riders are “taking advantage of the emptier streets and riding — masks up.” The Philly Naked Bike Ride attracts thousands of riders and covers a 10-mile course taking in the city’s landmarks such as Independence Hall and the Liberty Bell.
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